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• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can ... into the vastness of the box that I’m in. But it’s possible

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly ... your situation in Quantum II class. I hope that things even out for you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period is a four week period in January

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  . [annotation note="Generally, we (as in Google Maps and I) take 3 miles per hour ... probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... reason that I should be awake right now. In less than 3 hours, I am

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  years--was knowing that I was making a difference in the lives of hundreds ... a software engineer from Google sent me an email telling me he had ... days, whom I met for the first time in person when I arrived for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide ... useful if you want to refresh a skill you haven't used in a while, or if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... there who have built bottle rockets before or participated in a similar ... heavily on some pdfs and images that we found when we Googled “bottle rocket

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about ... ![/caption] Back when we all lived in East Campus, one of my housemates had a huuuuge whiteboard in her room. When we moved our stuff out in September, she insisted

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  in at MIT if..." you love being miserable! Now wait just a second ... barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google ... and wake up in a bath tub full of ice, your kidneys removed, and a pile

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these ... transportation stuff Public transportation in Boston is not as great as it is in ... stops at 77 Massachusetts Avenue and goes to Harvard Square in one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  … there was no cell service in the middle of the Green Mountains, and Google ... 200 miles in gridlock. We could keep following Google maps, but that ... exist in the background of our lives. If sunrises and sunsets occurred

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 're like me and live at Next House, you're really shooting yourself in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  many do! And among those who do, so much variety exists, in quantity ... my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019