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• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... changes. The exercise instructions were to "take part in a positive ... of my life on Snapchat in a desperate attempt to seek validation. In

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... the techniques I'm about to describe are also used in that class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of ... read a novel until I fall asleep. And every time I find myself wanting to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break ... HST is in the field of bioinformatics. He uses MATLAB "to analyze data

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech ... In 2011, MIT Mechanical Engineering students went through MISTI to

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  feels dissociative to be in this class. I feel like biochem has a lot of ... in the thermodynamics units, always finding the work to be fairly easy ... /10B/10ENG has to take this class right now, so it's just 44 of us in a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  incredible detail in the Club layout, from tall buildings all the way down to ... anywhere on the layout - here's a spot in the vicinity of Middle Heights. And below, you'll find a complete turntable setup.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust ... , but I sometimes like to use short-grain when I'm making a recipe that ... Kind bars (in addition to being a lot more expensive...) are more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight ... advice is to make a list of the classes that you're interested in finishing ... FOOD in bright red text. To be fair these posters are targeted to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... general, never to the Haymarket one in Boston and not as a college student ... during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when ... MIT, Jeffrey plans on using his fellowship to create technologies that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  room to find a slice of chocolate cake that literally had my name on it ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that ... screw. And here's to a year of living in a beautiful hundred year old

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different decision somewhere in her life. In one ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... use a tachometer to measure the motor rotational speed as a function of ... remembered an experiment you had performed in 2.671 using a Prony brake. They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  : decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you ... the class to come. In the meantime, we have provided three "open threads

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to ... used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment ... stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to ... there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters. Sighing, I resigned myself to waiting in line to use one of those machines

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009