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  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  The MIT Spring Term subject listings have been posted to the web ... Manufacturing I Prof. Alex Slocum Develops students' competence and self ... problems. Matt notes: I'm pretty excited about the new major in Biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the ... recent events, though, these cool projects seem kind of...useless. I look

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  that should have been trivial. I found myself frantically googling ... ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Instead, I thought I’d show you guys one of my essays through Google Docs ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 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 ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

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

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015 ... are meant to commemorate attributes from only the class. If you google ... it was seen during the tetris hack last year during CPW! I was in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• 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 ... recommendation for college; b) which colleges you're applying to and why. I ... , one in science. If you haven't yet fulfilled these requirements, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions have died down, but I have some last-minute thoughts and advice ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... decisions. We've had many posts about decisions, but here are some that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that

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

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... , feature roman domes and greek columns i remember learning about this and being confused - i thought at the time that art was supposed to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  I'm building from scratch and learning different web technologies for ... an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... February, Chelsea V. '15 and I received an e-mail saying "You've been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... -system-simulating nerds. I've run into a lot of people, both at and outside of MIT, who say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people. for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... tech showcase/career fair. I'm pretty done with job hunting ("done with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  what I know (which is not Google calendar, my iPhone’s calendar, or any ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011