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

  

  landed first place in my category at the tristate level science fair ... would come into my room like “here, I poured you a cup of coffee, you ... Google dot com and type in “animation for high schoolers.” When nothing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... meters long. On the exterior, this bridge is fairly unassuming and frankly ... music association comes from the Paradise Rock Club, which is a fairly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... Franklin Field. It didn’t seem fair. It didn’t seem right. In the weeks that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9 ... exhausting, so I remove my media and pour 59 new plates of agar. I go a little

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  landing sites. Hacks generally appear overnight since actually putting a ... hack, postering the admissions site and the MIT homepage with them ... to do in order to pull hacks are illegal and fairly dangerous. MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... this site -- also check out the extremely sexy Flash movies of DNA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... there with a hundred or so other science fair people from across the ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... fair amount, out of both necessity (for lab classes) or for lack of time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Med, or at least google scholar. (Xkcd 2007). I know, it sounds quite ... , darling, unique break-site architecture for crying out loud! Once you feel

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... (I did that a lot), refreshing the admissions site or reading bloggers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  amount of research involved. But, thank you, Google Books for not forcing ... that issue was fairly light, I had to stick around until 2am. Sigh. After ... tea. I was fairly happy with my progress around 6am, so, unwilling to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair ... month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  ’re fairly expensive, so I asked him why we got them: “Oh - they seemed cool ... -step authentication enabled on my Google account (extra security sounded good at the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . The day had been fairly normal so far, if unfocused: my Google Calendar

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  , and not fairness. Think about it. When is the last time you heard an admissions officer emphasize how fair the selection process is? Even if fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fair amount of time studying for this midterm--from rewatching lecture ... didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... fair announcement from the Department of Education mentions "innovation ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023