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• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  not listen to people who promise to make Mars safe for human habitation ... who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to make us immortal, we should check first to make sure we'll have someplace

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT ... you set your mind to.” Mom has empowered me to think big. When I feel ... notes to me from your inspired brainstorms. I want to see.)

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... make living work without having to eat instant ramen every day in the ... guilty no matter how little or big the purchase. Still, if you're able to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  making and trying new things. Instead of being scared to ask for help, I ... ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... , Concourse, Experimental Study Group, and DesignPlus. We’re here today to talk

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  To manufacture the silicon chips that run your computer, silicon ... designed to make 65 nm chips, in favor of manufacturing the newer SRAM chip ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  important. 23. It's wonderful to be perfectly content in the company of just ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  of your life - these are all meant to be temporally-finite experiences ... fall (after spending the summer at home), to make sure that I wasn’t just ... these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... someone or something." The point of this is to say that it is hard. Your ... : Keep in touch with your friends. Don't detach. It's harder now to keep in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... ="the student center"]Stud[/annotation] before you must scurry to your [annotation ... make the regretful decision to put this pset off until it's too late

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... information you need to get you started, including instructions to set up your e ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  untouched for nearly eleven months. I’ve done enough editing to make sure that ... ’s president has asked them to make contingency plans for their large lecture ... shopping – people seemed to be making runs on grocery stores to stock up. It

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  that we used to make this above ugly and hard-to-read data into pretty ... variations of "aaahhhhhh." So we wanted to make a graph showing how frequently ... made the code below to make pie charts! Lines 553, 554, and 555 are how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  system comes on for the pilot to make an announcement. Apparently, Berlin ... ways to make the best of the situation. By the time we landed, I had a ... tickets to Berlin had been booked until after 7 AM. Makes sense, since we

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  it to make it to yours? If you happen to be in the market for advice ... the language to make ridiculous and ugly portmanteaus when your English ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  better). We recommend that you park at your hotel and make your way to ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to ... know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  game, to someone to open your heart to despite whatever anxiety you feel ... closer to the workings of the show didn’t immediately make me feel more ... couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• 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