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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... spent most of my free time in October and November polishing up on my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  back in 2017. In early March, Janelle messaged me asking if she could ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... sky was breathtaking and relaxing. In the distance we saw an unusually ... thought of visiting this building we could see in the Cambridge skyline next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... delicious dim sum with friends in Chinatown. After gorging ourselves on ... in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... google search, 0/10 for conviction kah do ye kohkan se ki marna nhi kamal

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror, looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... myself in my room. if they're nearby they'll swing by and say hi, and it ... in other years. and other majors. and other schools. parties are more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... 'm Snively, I graduated in 2011 (MechE) and have just completed my first year out in the real world. That's right, electricity bills, rent, gas

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... with a faint, delayed crackle. Most nights, this summit was shrouded in ... ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  ? As I opened my Google Maps app, my phone froze in the way it normally ... " wifi network. When maps.google.com finally loaded, I typed in "East ... sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose ... before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the ... Google and Yahoo news feeds. If there's an article about you or a friend ... , Christy set her sights on MIT after reading a story in Scientific American

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... looking for new friends to make. DropBox, Facebook, Google, Apple, Space

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my ... family found ourselves in the following awkward situation while in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  setting where I have to discreetly google ‘ramen’ to get some context in the ... , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in, and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018