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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how we got to be human. Genomics is a new and quickly evolving field ... ’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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... it. Any images we bloggers post here need to be hosted in our Athena

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the ... now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at ... Athletics Department took the initiative to build a new weight room that will

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... down with me and explained to me, in a way that actually made sense, how ... that aren’t taught in class—like how to coordinate a complicated software

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... year because he decided to live in Burton Conner and we already had 3 ... and try to work together to make everything a little better in the field

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer ... to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty ... freestyle though, because sometimes you manage to get a line, or a verse, or a

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... over 250 dances! getting into dance through K-pop, at least in the self ... that I have at least 15 new dance videos in my subscriptions every day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  freshmen trip to the New England Aquarium.   In the aquarium, it was ... Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• 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 / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  pervasive in all of engineering, including: How to document and communicate ... in a large, multi-week project. How to identify and search for the ... ) in 2022, they also introduced a new numbering system to fix this mess

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone ... 't get done. i've learned how to poke people and ask them how things are ... folders. i've learned many wording tricks to use in emails to get points

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and perhaps most importantly, how to fix old and dirty whiteboards. You know how ... ’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009