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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  will magically inflate if I think about them hard enough. They haven’t ... creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... in time to realize I forgot to sleep the previous night (you don't

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... make the biggest investment.  No, the cute jacket you bought in July won't ... thoughts on saving money: Cheaper isn't always cheaper Some things are worth

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  name, Smyly the Juggler. And you wouldn't know it looking at him, but he ... Quincy Market in downtown Boston as a shoe-shine boy. Shoe shining wasn't a ... handles them: "Doing something—bouncing something off the wall? You don’t do

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  confidential…) I won't ask any more questions about that, then. Let's talk about ... ...I honestly don't know enough neuronscience to be able to explain it, I just do ... "specialized" field like aerospace isn't nearly as restrictive as it is sometimes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... entry. Now I'm re-writing it. See - things haven't changed since my blogger days. Other things are very different. I couldn't quite bring

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  connection. I didn’t think about the temperature, so my fingers are almost too ... overlapping courses and professors, so far, I hadn’t investigated architecture ... times, I felt forced to adhere to arbitrary rules I didn’t understand, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  off to college.  I won't try to cover everything you should bring (if ... title wouldn't fit on the image below. Paper and pencil Antiquated, I ... down, as opposed to just typing it out. Using pencil & paper doesn't

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  , confusion means I’m learning, and isn’t that what I came here to do? So I re ... breaks aren’t just about the food of course. They are also a time to ... break was an endorphin-filled success. Don't be afraid to be yourself. It

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  : Take Vitamins Regularly Chances are you won't be following Step 1 as well ... paper due Friday and I haven't even started! Student B: Wow, that stinks ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  learn best. What I found after Interphase was that lectures alone didn't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after ... psets and test. Often times attendance won't be taken but the material

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  spent caring isn't always energy spent constructing. Ta-Nehisi said ... 're stale and irrelevant. Don't DO that! Whoever you are, reading this, don't ... in advance. Don't do that. Your crisp will be less than delicious. More

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  nervous I was. Boy, they didn't understand, though! It was MIT that I was ... 've already heard" in my mind. But it wasn't until this semester that I realized ... I knew how to work hard. I just didn't do it so often. I certainly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  I admit that I haven't been doing it as much as I'd like to. I ... it straight. It's easy to forget to check in--I don't call my parents ... back? I couldn't do it without the anchors in my life -- my close

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... they not like and what do they absolutely love about it? Wouldn't it be ... it wasn't worth it to listen to them when you could just listen to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  structure. Two course 18 freshmen later my heart sank. I couldn’t possibly ... .05 recitation, am I?” I found out later that we didn’t have recitation that week, which I didn’t realize because I accidentally pre-registered for 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  mega baller and has a car.) When I told her I didn’t know what Friendly ... them character--my camera's been through a lot, you see.) 7. PEOPLE: Don’t ... took the T. The winter didn’t stop me. Frozen sand is quite aesthetically

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . Oddly enough, I haven't had any deep and meaningful thoughts while ... break. Although I don't want to talk too much about my break (let's be ... definitely feel like you belong at home, but it doesn't feel the same way it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  fluke warm winter weather won't prevent the Outdoors Club (MITOC) from ... the snow. They go through everything you need to know if you haven't ... (Windows didn't like the drivers). That and because it's frackin' huge and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ... . The ones where you say "yeah Sx wouldn't solve Px, and Sy wouldn't solve Py, but Sx + Sy solves Px, Py, and Pz which wasn't even a design

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... , but can't speak coherently for 50 minutes. Professor Silbey was not any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011