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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  (life is both hard and weird without a conventional living situation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  life, keeping my class and book notes together. I also use it as an idea

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  When I’m feeling irritable and/or stressed, I dislike empty advice. I particularly loathe the phrase “work smarter not harder”, probably because it was said to me many times last year…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  , and you are, and you most definitely will lead an amazing life despite

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  with my life during the last two weeks--working and sleeping at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is that whenever you go to the…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  than) I love writing code, however - and this makes my life awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  such a small part of life here.  You can increase the difficulty as much

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt, clutching a handbag that contained an article…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here’s a sample…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  your life, and understand yourself as your own person. People who read

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . Here on the blogs we try to give you a sense of what life is like at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  access to such amazing mathematical resources has had on my life, and it

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew a lot of other math majors would be (Random). I figured I would have the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush. (Yes, all…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  really just move on with my life already. I hope no one minds. =) Okay, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009