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  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a Google search, those in their ben ming nian (birth year) may encounter

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old ... recorded when I was talking to my parents about college decisions. To spare

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted

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

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... really want to take the time to reflect on everything I've learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  Google Glass to help kids with autism, ADHD, and Social-Emotional Learning ... opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... patterns. To the extent that this is true - and to the extent that Apple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Google Fonts led to higher-quality open-source fonts. Part of the quality ... sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... 's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... that I can do big fun things that contribute nothing towards my to ... -sewing with, which I pilfered from Math Prize for Girls 2024. Shout out to Tor

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  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 moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the

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

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  Every modern TV show with more than 3 seasons seems to have one thing ... it, Groundhog Day!  After about six weeks at MIT, I’ve started to feel ... endless loop. Welcome to season 18 episode 98 of my life: “Hala’s Escape

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... 'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... part, she was going to scream. So off they'd go, these primitive tourists

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015