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• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  . and there’s so many cool things that you get to see if you don’t take ... , suitcase in tow, trying to catch a 10:30 am amtrak at boston south station ... wanted to find.) when i first saw the letter in my inbox, i had just

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done ... same time—but I've been having a good time trying to get it all under ... piano was to fill a random spot for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get ... tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  what happens. See how I add one more item to the list and it collapses and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... roses that have decided to latch their roots onto me, but in the process

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align ... organ donor. If there are too many people to fit in the front of the U

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT’s mascot/school colors?

  Our mascot is a beaver—nature's original engineer. Perfect, right? Tim the Beaver has been a member of the MIT community for 100 years. MIT's school colors are cardinal red and silver gray.
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , growing up in South Dakota, I always wanted to get away from home and move ... talks about the importance of music, about how we cling to it in our ... am back in South Dakota, for example, I often get the urge to just take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ’t want to eat the laundry detergent or get it in your eyes. Procedure ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute ... information needed to build you up and then maintain you; it determines how you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  What to do if you get an ugly corsage How to Treat a Pimple How to ... a Drink How to Get Someone to Buy You a Drink ... advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... claims began to roll in. In total, four name brand jackets, about $100 in ... picnic. All in all, it was a tragic end to a magical day, but a car karaoke

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because ... any idea of how to do. And then you’ll spend 20 hours learning chemistry

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  and how to use it. Along with installing i3, I also installed vim in ... . Honestly, I don't know if I'll get to these goals in time, since I know that ... 'm really happy to see how far I've come in this process. I hope that with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get ... style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  's interesting to think about how student community will change with it. In this ... culture, it enabled it in many ways. I'm interested to see how things change ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these ... reference librarians we have here at MIT if you are unsure how to go about a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... how to actually get home walking from Davis. I discovered that there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  interested in seeing how it'd adapt to a virtual format. after spending an hour ... 're asked to pay attention to how our feet are in contact with the ground, to ... interact with people in real life, like how to make eye contact, or at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020