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• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... helps in the process. Talking with your guidance counselor. We will ... School Report, which does include a letter that they write about you, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk drawer, or (in most cases) shoved into a bag which was subsequently shoved

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  points in Cambridge and Boston, kind of like Google Maps but local and with ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. HowStuffWorks.com had a pretty good explanation. 3-D Viewing In a movie theater, the ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... wave my cell phone in the air.) Despite sleeping something like 16 hours

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads, our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  ) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... many symbols on it in honor of various events and ideas. Some ideas ... are meant to commemorate attributes from only the class. If you google

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  This blog post is about the following picture: In particular ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... around campus in black-and-grey fleur-de-lis patterened high heeled boots

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... and their effect in the English language would have you believe, I ... , since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up ... on Central Park in New York City. eventual material: Some of the future ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  share this so I guess I'll stick it in here—Joey Googled ARIEL because ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe ... I did a lot of reading and relaxing. That in itself isn't a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically ... interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... various environmental and sustainable development groups in the region. So

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... room last year, that my walls were papered entirely in post-it notes ... pinned right in front of my workstation just in case I forget trivialities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011