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• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  can attest to how well they work.     Note Taking: Evernote ... One way to kill procrastination is to find out how much time you spend on everything you do. Use this app to track your day and see how much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  So you know how cars sit at stoplights with their all their blinkers ... the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... —not swim, walk. We had to think about how the water felt, the resistance, all of that jazz. It felt weird. No matter how hard I tried to walk faster

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  gathered to loudly celebrate? How can one translate the impression provoked ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  learning how to actively learn, pursue topics, and be inspired by the ... awesome at it because that doesn't help them. They want to know about how ... to know about you, not about how much crap you can shove into your day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... . I have complete autonomy over my living space and habits, down to the little things like how my room smells. My definition of good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... , “typical” doesn’t describe anyone here, and in GEL I’m going to learn how to ... Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... to teach about fifteen kids (between the ages of 8-12) about Italy! We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we ... how to edit video, lessons specifically on how to best utilize a tablet ... ME BE ARTSY/WORK ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS WHILE ENJOYING MYSELF. To be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  take your life, how a single professor can change what you want to do for ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010