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• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick succession, her Facebook status was updated, Google-stalking was initiated, and ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Black Friday sale where I'd have to snatch clothes quick and fast and ... come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves to warm fuzzy socks, there was truly everything at this event. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  helps to mentally start with something quick and wrong, then gradually ... adulting-oriented questions, because that's what I expected to learn, coming into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is ... . Answering that question without more information can be reductive to your

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  . I made it reasonably far before Google Maps decided to mess with me ... to end up according to Google Maps. Easier said than done. That's the ... : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... 2017, I used a Google Sheet to keep track of my college applications, and a separate Google Doc to compose my essays. Here's an example of how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling '07, Erica '07 ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at ... right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... ed sites to "go social", if by "going social" you mean things like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... sometimes...surprisingly enough it's nice to not be sitting down all day. here ... floor but it's nice to know that i could if i wanted to. that's all for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  leading to the COIN’s location. Oh no! It’s then quickly found by Gaby, and ... Chessex dice on Google, we were able to map the 20 sides of the D20 onto the ... numbers, indexing into each answer to get a letter. Often these two phases

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester ... and talking with people, I made the ultimate decision to drop 6.009. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to ... be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  attribute this to other than weird Google stuff. Of course, these are ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and improved application deadline quickly approaching. Here's a picture. Enjoy, good luck, and feel free to email me at the address in the banner. Have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  seemed to get. I was initially a little hesitant to use Google Forms as ... along every story until it was ready to be published. I very quickly ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  which the objective is to lower a stick propped up by the index fingers of ... side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you ... year left before you have to say goodbye, but they'll be gone before you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly ... relative to my body, and, say, play the E5 key with my right index finger ... . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022