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• Blog / How to MIT

  [Guest Post] How to get paid to be funny by Abby S. '26

  

  Fund for Humor is to "impress students with the importance of humor in ... "]stud.[/annotation] HUH?  Actually, hold on, let’s go back to the beginning. The story starts with a now MIT alum who introduced me to the wonders of the De

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  you could, y'know, take a three-and-a-half hour car ride to New ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... amazing snack. You next realize that it's well into the small hours, and ... . Once said novelty is firmly affixed to said vacuum attachment, the lid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different, with a special attachment to stick on top of a hose. Some background on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  for like an hour [/annotation] every time I pull up to the admissions ... spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  giving me awesome tips about how to do important things like stop and turn ... PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do it while procrastinating on something far more important. I clean my room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  The MIT Spring Term subject listings have been posted to the web ... by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... teachers at the Institute. BE.010J: Introduction to Bioengineering Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  walkthroughs for video games or even tutoring videos that were guides to how to ... thinking you have actual important things to say? How could you want a bigger ... think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be best to spend an hour doing phone-app math to find my current ... except go to class for like two hours (oops!). I did print out the 8 ... accidentally watched nothing on YouTube for 3 hours, went to dinner, and then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  chronological reason, let's go back (or forward) to the wee hours of Monday ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  think it's time to redo it! As a symptom of doing hours and hours of ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  I, I was drawn to the class by the lab component (three hours on ... Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... (1.013) has a four-hour lab 12-4pm on Wednesday, which blocks out a lot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  spend hours working through tedious calculations or to conduct experiments ... . i think it’s important to recognize that magicians exist and you can ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013