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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  because our busy-ness tends to vary a lot week to week. Nevertheless, it can ... you can tell, it devolved quite quickly. For context, boxtrolls are ... edit it, anyone can see it, and it's always there to remind you that you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  hours of homework a week. It’s going to destroy me and I literally can’t wait. 21M.600: Intro to Acting. This is kinda just a taking-it ... talented teachers, and I wanted to see what it would be like on the college

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... 've never come close to finishing everything on a goals list, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  . Unlike most other universities, it's rare for students to move off campus ... , and it's not always easy to determine who made them. And, face it - in ... the next morning, they are less inclined to take care of it. That said

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  it can bring to someone's life. Even from a purely secular perspective ... ? Why does it feel hollow? We'd be quick to blame the fact that we're in a ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  to Game Design Methods) now"]brief[/annotation] headache over it. I ... months, as I tried my hardest to ignore it. By the middle of December, I ... "]hemmed,[/annotation] I had to power through it. All nine hours of it, from interviews to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... , it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... , "Being smart isn't knowing all the answers. It's knowing where to find them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  on and on. It's also really useful to ask upperclassmen and classmates ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write ... and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I ... postcard collection, I bought it just a week before leaving NYC to come to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  search for transiting exoplanets pushes CCD instrumentation to its ... significant projects. Quick, sexy, independent projects usually don't result in ... , you will ever only really touch a tiny piece of it. I have to admit my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum ... quantum sensors out of lasers and stuff, and it is exactly what I need to ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... class, which used to motivate me to wake up at 9 am, now inspires only ... !! Chinese used to be so much fun. my improvement was tangible and i felt so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  said, isn’t it weird, how quickly we’ve gotten used to living in MIT ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... use the three tools to make anything we wanted, as long as it used a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  projector working, we just went up to her suite and watched it on her laptop ... ! OMG it was so incredible to watch, because a l l o f i t w a s p a i n t ... introverted fashion, quickly met someone to talk to while we began partaking in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  came from diverse backgrounds and industries, and it was uplifting to see ... MIT. “What is MIT?” he asked. “It is you. You are here in this room to work ... way to solve the world’s challenges, it is here.” Indeed, the most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  your robot can capture the skunk and then take it back to your opponent ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... 6.270. We've found that people can learn everything they need to know

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  ) that we can use to analyze the mechanisms that underlie the world around ... Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who have used randomized control trials to ... , businesses can’t afford to hire as many workers, and so fewer people will be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most ... It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  , though, and the actors can sing along to it. Maybe it even sounds good ... explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do ... same time—but I've been having a good time trying to get it all under

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... remote is like. Also, if it sounds awesome to work at Twitch, you're right ... a meal. I try to sneak in a quick YouTube video, or progress past an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020