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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  , first on paper, then in Google Slides. [caption id="attachment_56997 ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  Google Games in April, then What’s that Spell in October, then SUMS over ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Google dot com and type in “animation for high schoolers.” When nothing ... admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012