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• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I ... you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... 'd never tried Opera before, but I was inspired to download it by all your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  easier. Already I was itching for a next time. I returned to the test site ... biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  can get back to your p-set. 36.a. Eggs with vegetables Effort: 2 ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  fun things to do, getting ahead on your classes - or taking ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

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

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit ... anticipation. If you're unfamiliar with the decade-long project, let me sum it up ... great article on the Opera of the Future over on the MIT News Office site

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  what you'd like your user ID to be (you get to pick) -- keeping in mind ... mad that makes me, especially since I would really like to get my ... way to meet some of your new classmates. What's the deal with the meal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  following May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  you do is get access to your dorm (New World Symphony, “Going Home ... . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is ... get to MIT, however, they care less about the packaging, but the kind of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the ... " "We encourage you to come up with your own procedure to solving problems ... can explain your work, you're pretty much useless to the world. You have

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get ... myself hydrated at all times. I have to get three shots. At this point

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about ... financial aid office says they'll get it to me next week. Are they really that ... 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... to pad your resume. And try to get good stats - have as few glaring ... they demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks (and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ’t get past resume screenings at most places I applied to, my GPA was still ... hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... got too addicting subscribing to Disney+ only to be stunningly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... "Apple fanboy." Neither does my dad, who is about as far as you can get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020