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• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Google Drive. Already a struggle to stay relevant in the two years since I ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and I'm so excited that I'm just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this

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

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  freshman seminar; we go to cool places like Google and MIT Open Learning and ... because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... down Boylston towards Skullhouse. All was going well - I was nearly to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I ... United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most

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

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... pandemic. the president takes sick leave and no one knows what to do. an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... K. '18 has (almost) all the logistic info you need to have an excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  opens AND, prior to that, Skype/Google hangout with you for 1/2 hour ... Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down ... ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  there might be some that Google hadn't picked up on. My plan, then, was to ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023