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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  . It was surprisingly difficult, however, to collect my data from Google ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... to hide from me. I put them back where I thought they might belong and ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid/aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017