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• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  beanbag is much better. Corkboard for jewelry I have a lot of beautiful ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... I'm using. Here we also specify how each component is connected to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  . Climate change and resource exhaustion is very much a real issue. Humanity ... provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said ... , THIS IS NOT A GOOD TAKE ANYMORE SINCE HE KINDA SUCKS!!!! Specifically, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much time I have left. The first round is me doing a read over through my ... 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

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  used to be a hotel! - and is in a really convenient location. So we have ... orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  to my friend Ty who is a senior in the house that was more experienced ... Acrylic in a 60 Watt Universal Systems Free Standing CO2 Laser Cutter Laser ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social ... figured I would try recruitment just in case. Recruitment week is a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  in almost a year and how the time in between made me realize that my ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... 's been a great four years in Beantown - but sorry, we're (hopefully) headed ... : 1) open a food truck in SF/NYC, 2) work in standardized testing field

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  knowledge, so, in case you are wondering what I mean, here is a link ... [annotation note="there is a Unicode Zero-Width Space in this blank space here ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

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

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  plates of deliciously free Thai food, we all sat in a circle of desks as ... right now, I’ll throw in a free doodle! Yes, that’s right, I’ll answer ... was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... year, the brothers participate in a rather chaotic room assignment ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  -Harry-Potter-related all-nighter (whoa that was a lot of hyphens!) Free sodas and coffees ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby ... what they were building in the courtyard before we took a detour on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the whole time. There is definitely much to be desired in the quality ... surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... . Leadership is a moment of helping each other live — in this life that ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  show follows a family on a ship on course to a planet in the Alpha ... opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025