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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to ... each time afterwards to email me and ask me how I was, and even that ... .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... 's journey from no running to Boston Marathon convinced me that I could train ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on ... awesome. We have 15 to choose from, but here are my favorite 6: 1) Turning

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  them plan and plan over the best thing to do only minutes later, how fast ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the charles, noticing how the smallest shifts in seating rock the boat, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non-Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was, naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to ... post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  about how this week was "hell week." (these things happen to everyone at ... I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  first assignment. Be sure to tell us how you spent your summer. If you are ... (The Summer Update Edition!) Greetings to all! Can you feel that ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it's the kind that makes me want to move my head to the music, to move my fingers to the beat, to run instead of walk. i went to maybe three or four

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  productive all semester -- and perhaps ever. How naïve. I was able to ... person that could help out. Perhaps this is just a testament to how many ... envy). Or maybe it was a testament to how many plugs HP makes (so many

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  whose central goal is to address the question: "How can people and ... , People Talk About What They do All Day and How They Feel About What they Do ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  interactions (outside of my home) for a year, I'm not sure I know how to talk to ... noticed how hard it was for me to think of solutions to problems compared to how it usually would be, which brought this issue to my attention

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you ... doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how ... safety net. the good I'm trying to navigate things on my own, like how do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  holidays, or submitted art portfolios to show us how you visually express ... wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  learned how to cook. My parents were never that big on cooking: I remember ... to learn how to cook. Most of my time was spent on school, extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024