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• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  floor but it's nice to know that i could if i wanted to. that's all for ... accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the global fight for freedom--is of growing appeal to many policymakers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... what I wanted. I stuck with wall paints for the most part. I had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  minutes later, I said to myself, "You know, I bet Google has an application ... uploaded all the photos I needed to upload to Google Photos using my Croque ... it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  last time, although forgetting to ask for names in a Google Form isn’t a high bar to overcome. My [annotation note="unfortunately, I couldn’t get ... clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  grad student for a while. At minimum two years, even more if I get in to ... you get funded for the degree). Apply to jobs in the real world ... the sailing class next semester, so maybe I'll get this to 50% before I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  time do you have of making new friends and getting to know new ... fraternities would be trying to get your attention - and fast. You might be ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  for headers, logos, titles, and other large texts, as opposed to body ... ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest ... Courier New, the "9 AM to 2 PM" is Palatino Linotype, and everything else is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask ... decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  By: get a head start on 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms), applied to daily ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool ... experience at a company that claimed to use AI for drug discovery, but seemed ... a lot of tasks that are currently tedious and unpleasant for humans to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  sadly entirely over, at least for now. I might get to help out next year ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every ... at Maseeh people for living so close to campus when you have to walk

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends ... hoodies to wristbands to hats. Anything for your school, team, fraternity

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat ... best way to learn is to push yourself so fast that you faceplant, and ... 've taken have been invaluable for this. They've given me the confidence to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually listening to them ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... . having rediscovered my love for reading, I decided to embark on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... began by visiting a friend in New York.   [caption id="attachment_104814

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  getting hit up for cash by the 'tute is not the central theme of this entry. So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... is a repeated effort to search for new information and new ideas, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... effects of aneuploidy, say by inducing further energy stress, to eliminate ... that!! Needless to say, I was pretty excited by the end of the talk

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012