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  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit ... out this talk he gave for Authors@Google promoting his book, The Brief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  things. Kvothe would weep. Anyway I just googled 'big automatic scary ... some of my projects at the end of the year: [caption id ... Sulli Y. ‘22 at a writing conference. She told me how she apprenticed with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  &ab_channel=JonBois At first, I was just going to copy Jon's idea ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  toys: Oculus Rifts, Pebble watches, Google Glasses, Arduinos, breadboards ... expiration date any food placed inside it. Another team was hard at work making ... the player wanted, as long as it was on Google Maps. Yet another team

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... dumplings” and “trash” and I end up using a pinyin keyboard and Google Images

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... B, Example C from a quick Google search). However, with enough ... list/system to send stuff to everyone at MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  2016 FIRST Robotics FRC game at the annual kickoff event. I've blogged ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... Woodie started teaching at MIT in the early 1970s. For decades, 2.007 has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  abroad 3 times Finish all my Psets at least 2-3 days before the deadline ... a day at the Cambridge Public Library Spend a day at the Boston Public Library Visit Harvard at least twice a semester Get a Harvard

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  feel like I'm being organized, at least for my sanity" [annotation note ... Google Sheets template that I customized until it was so grotesque I could ... 're considering this. If you look at my journal, you can see that I didn't bother

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... there? Well, there's beauty in the breakdown. At 5 AM, I'm leaving Burton-Conner for South Station by the T. Once there, I'll stop at Au Bon Pain kiosk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the ... Italian word that I directed at waitstaff, cashiers, and train operators ... total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... covering this story. How does this stuff relate at all to what happened last ... implementation up into a final product. Let’s look at the events of the past 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in ... , when I make mistakes occur at lab, I mourn for about ten minutes, then

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at other schools she's had experience with (she was at Yale for 20ish years

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard ... friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin. At this point I had found a ... at fact that if the internet hadn’t picked up this video, these two men

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... applications at Google, and in that role, had regular dealings with Steve. It was ... looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I'm not happy with the icon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a ... through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019