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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , helped build a massive roof-deck, went kite-boating, went to Google (and ... "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  far according to google maps[/caption] i was really excited about being ... . unfortunately, i don't have my own car here, but also want to see places around the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  59-minute walk according to Google Maps, but 40 minutes at a New York ... weekend to see the latest updates!). Background Slack Messages Earlier ... begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer ... to be as awesome as planned? What would happen next? Next, I met MIT friends in Central Ohio. Calm upperclassmen who taught me how to pronounce

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have ... begin to question why it has taken me so long to finish my Bachelors, let ... chosen to stay at MIT to do the longest graduate program possible, the MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in ... another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... college students + staying up way too late = everything from cookies to pancakes to tapioca pudding. But those are all just little things. Let

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time ... have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to another semester I’ll have to take it with class C which is an estimated 20

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  Google docs as their preferable means of communication and meetings to be a ... I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  MIT to accelerate her progress towards her goals and the person she aims ... September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be ... ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  started to keep track. I adapted a Google Sheets Monthly Budget template and ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how to not spend their money. I definitely didn't, even when I really

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  companies, including Google, have used AI optimization to reduce energy use by ... find that was applying AI to smaller companies, as Google’s work seemed ... A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the conventional sense, my priorities were screwed up. However, to continue with the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... , junior year, post-grad, first job, etc, etc. I originally intended to just ... have you guys been up to? Remember to call home and all that, and visit

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017