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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... each celebrity, saying, "Come to us! Come meet us! We're super cool!" Get ... looking for new friends to make. DropBox, Facebook, Google, Apple, Space

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  of the regular quests have time limits, you’ll likely need to get an ... . Use s^3 to get extensions. If you are sitting down to work for a long ... is still far easier to get extensions if you have a cold than if your

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  of random snacks. Make the walk across the river to Shake Shack and get ... 've gotten, and then figure out what you need to get on each assignment ... 't worry--you don't only have to, nay get to, rant on the day of the exam

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... 's remote, though" which, yes, true. But I was just happy to get one in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury ... CRAZY amount of work I'm going to get done tomorrow. 10:00pm Snack And TV ... Samurai Champloo. 12:00am Sleep Need my beauty sleep to get up at 8 for the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!   ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  interesting response to me, because I get it. I usually respond to this ... I sit down to put it [annotation note="paper? Google docs? I’ll just ... thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... their songs aren't summery enough to make the list. When PB's latest album ... reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... to try and fail. It did get frustrating at times, but overall, I still

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  its methods, as real science is supposed to be. It was also created from ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , I have to get at least 6 hours of sleep the night before. If I get 5 or fewer hours of sleep, I have to get 7+ hours the next night. I have to wake up before 8:00AM at the latest, or else I am significantly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... , it’s a really good fit. I think the best way to get a sense of what ... chocolate, but once you start getting to really vague concepts like "benefit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  that you have to blog, think that you get to blog." I still remember my ... quite as I found myself pondering on those words. I get to blog today? I get to blog today! I've been writing for as long as I can remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019