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  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the ... , you get to check them all out and compare them to where you're living ... to your current dorm (up to 5, I believe). Some people will get their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking ... done anything similar, and all you have to work with are Google Maps and ... the end, I decided I would get to Italy later than Kano and only see

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Google search did nothing to dissuade my increasing heart rate as phrases ... hours of sleep; maybe you get pneumonia and have to drop some classes. But ... 2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... though you’re sweating profusely, small hairs sticking to your forehead and ... the world. The wind blows through your hair and the ground seems to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury ... this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle ... has tinkered with bacteria to make them produce a petroleum-like fuel ... ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  , officially. To quote their website: "Throughout the year students may also come ... to get a tour of the famous strobe lab myself (I'd never been inside ... Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  attempts to answer each prompt. (So no, you can’t get a robot to write your ... didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... 's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  " you get to do to keep your life functioning. Things like, making sure to ... average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not ... responsibilities, because it's a lot easier to stay afloat when there's air in your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into the people search; 2) point your web browser to http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... drastically different from high school. You get closer to each other a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... calculus. You'll enjoy your time here more if you get a full experience

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  blogger—and here i am. i wished at 11:11 to get into mit, and here i am ... , and it was really tasty. When you're done, you're supposed to go to the ... them for too long your back will start hurting and then you'll need to go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021