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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  at least since I wrote my biography for this blog, it's been my dream ... about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... Wah Bus ride away from Boston, we decided to head down for the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the over-achievers or 6 for the eventually sleep-deprived). Well, at least we ... semester has a certain feeling of frenzy (or at least for us it does) and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... fail. I could not say that I am particularly good at math, or exceptional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  plan for the next 6 months. At the end of 70 minutes, I had to give a ... international automotive company, Gelota, we worked for was facing reports of failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... the bloggers telling them that if there were 6 new posts by tomorrow at

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  -up. For now, my fingers need a break. I'm actually off-campus right now, at ... I'm now halfway through my undergraduate career at MIT, which means ... Social Sciences (HASS) departments - this involves taking at least three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the ... spring in time for that (or at least hosted an equivalent event). Because ... the fences when they don’t even close? Cars here slow down for a deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  right now, or at least at NASA. Definitely SpaceX and Tesla. Google and ... Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  and free pizza for two days. Hurray for Google Information Sessions, the ... Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  Well...if there’s one thing you can know for sure about studying at ... realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in ... learning all about model-making, 3D modeling, 3D printing, etc. But now for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  get to HQ for some reason. Then we got on the bus at the wrong time ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... students roaming around. Those that are really intensely looking for a job

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  took the token out of my pocket at the Back Bay stop, in preparation for ... by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for ... program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus[/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do because it’s not real). At this point, I’m somewhat convinced that quantum ... at point B sometimes”? Truly statements dreamed up by the utterly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... agenda, I polled my dorm for orange recommendations—results here. Ever ... find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to ... concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... that somebody was actually at desk searching for "clay aiken TV guide ... Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  hand at legislative drafting. For example, *Carpenter v. U.S., U.S. v ... got shop training at the Media Lab:   Spent a weekend for the ... Computing launch:   Heard from the Design Director for Google Home

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019