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• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  books, and many are offered for free. The books are ePub format so the ... schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for programs and apps for productivity, note-taking, security, and even music

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  degree and the latter was a prominent historian.[annotation note="I would ... and the Boston Common, which are two adjacent parks right in the middle ... tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn ... spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  later experience. So I'm going to try and cite from primary sources (that ... to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have ... -TWO AND FIVE-TWELFTHS." My high school was a decent suburban Ohio public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country—and ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at best. An ... , get your fiber. constipation sucks."]nutritious[/annotation] dishes and ... seems daunting, i promise you that it's very doable and upperclassmen are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage of visuals and storytelling. But, once the summer came along, and I was ... [annotation note= "deadlines and grades"]external motivation,[/annotation] so I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  delayed by 6 hours and am instead sitting on my couch, watching the time tick by, and reflecting. Airports have not treated me very kindly this ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have ... some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch ... things I’d forgotten and felt a warm surge of familiarity upon recognizing

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  into different states and colleges. I traveled to West Virginia for a ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... December 22 after my last final, drove home from the airport, and fell asleep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  disclaimers. My current state of unadulterated chillaxedness mingled with ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a suitcase and sell it at places like Target for $49.99 or so. Three hours and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the stairs and a flurry of multilingual exclamations: pon tu pie aquí ... up through the shower window and came to the rescue. Freedom at last ... , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  .812) and two electives. In the first four years the minor is offered, it ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... ." If you went, you saw me and the other bloggers in all our glory. It was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be ... , and their families. Plan your strategy and test your recipes while you ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  University of Pretoria in South Africa. I was just there, so I hung out and ... five-minute chunks, and if you ever stop, EVERYTHING gets DELETED. :o But don't worry, I'm cool and awesome and never stop writing ッexcept for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  , and the Wanderer's Library (≈7600 words). Set in the SCP universe, where ... This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021