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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... ? Well, it's this wonderful machine shop that MIT students can use to make ... taken some photos for you guys to see these machines :( But this just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... realized how much I’d improved when I went to MOSTEC, an MIT summer program I ... how badly I was doing that I forgot to appreciate the things that were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -professional clubs proliferate like dandelions—I’ve found it reasonably simple to avoid ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... direction, I would have to continue going to boring meetings surrounded by

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  will be about how and why you might want to blog and become the ... spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  some puzzles, and slept over. On Sunday afternoon, I learned how to play ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... that was free. During January, ESP was asked to clear out the room where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want ... of little pieces? Me too. I want to hear how you’re actually, really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves ... applications to demonstrate the concepts. Emphasizes applicational examples, such as 18.02, 7.03, 14.01, 5.12, 7.012, and numerous others. Restricted to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload similar to my organic chemistry overload last year. **FLASHBACK** Last ... FORWARD TO TIME PRESENT** So this week, it wasn't organic chemistry as much

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... able to accommodate your interview. Here are my suggestions on how to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our ... confusing and overwhelming learning how to navigate campus while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Watch the videos on how to unpack, wear and re-pack Tim, and guidelines on how to keep cool inside the suit. 3. Complete a quiz to show you know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  conversations. I began to wonder how differently things would have turned out if I ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , the excruciatingly detailed how-to-do-everything ... Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017