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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking ... of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  are a lot of things you can do with them in terms of design ... . Which meant that I spent the busiest week of my year living in a half ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... that I haven't had the greatest track record in terms of keeping mentally ... 're not in the best state of mind. Growth, where we learn how we can best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  run that I spent the rest of the evening setting up a computer in the ... -booting shortly after buying the computer, so that just in case I messed up again I ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me ... Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English: school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  list of meetings can be found here. And with that, I'm off to West Palm ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... of Educational Counselors (ECs) in attendance: 8 Number of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a ... , though, I can barely remember those days. Now, when I think of January, I ... memory can work like this. By the end of January, I was beginning to

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  me and I use it all the time in place of my debit card, then just pay ... normally do, I'm establishing credit, I'm still not in debt, and I get 5% of ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="attachment_57638" align="alignnone" width="660"] done in high school - i can ... free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner ... , like I’m 14 and can’t pay attention in geometry. I’m taking CMS.307

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  of binder paper. In those classes, I generally just put my computer on my lap. In most of the main classrooms (i.e. 10-250 and 54-100), the ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I ... access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  out with no expectation of winning, so you can imagine my shock when I ... York City in April for the photo shoot, I had no idea who the other girls ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... had to admit that, yes, this was now the coolest thing I know of that ... City of Boston and MIT, because, seriously, look at these freaking things

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  , continuing the storied evolution of Gifford City and its railroad, the "Tech Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... of freight and passenger services nationwide. Written in Python, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006