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• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... 've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  As I mentioned here, I'm taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action ... breaks, DON'T TAKE THE BUS! Oh, and if you do, make sure you have a potato ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great ... work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  you do. Your thoughts are worth so much more than just a coin, or a ... I think the saying "a penny for your thoughts?" is really rather ... face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that other folk

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  PREMISES 1. This is an OPINION post. Not a suggestion post. I'm not trying to debate about housing or even recommend to you what you should do ... plus fraternities at MIT do not all have the same personality, so it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  of experience you do or don't have, but not having experience isn't a ... Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  doing way too many activities, I’m the professor who sees a student’s eyes ... ’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  never be able to do; the excitement of having a friend to go with who can ... been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  take us a few days to do this). That interviewer may be willing to do the ... high. (Last week, we were getting over a hundred emails a day…) While you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  your student does not have a cell phone, but you do, you may want to ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school, so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the notes i took in (another) week but it was midterm week so it's just crib sheets

  

  2.002: Mechanics and Materials II This feels a bit full circle, because the first time I made this blog I created a note sheet for 2 ... this class as a tree, so this first midterm covered the 'trunk' of stress

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... robot-related tasks, each year with a different theme. The year's theme ... being entirely autonomous and audience "ooh's" for doing something badass

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative ... Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014