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• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a ... stayed because whatever options I had for leave felt worse.  And despite ... , starting from so much Google Calendar-ing. The future seemed like a dark void

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... that should have been trivial. I found myself frantically googling

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two ... -week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming ... for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  slack for my last flight: [visually_hidden]Slack thread that starts ... ." The thirteen replies are as follows: Here is my tale: rebranding for the ... earlier because i have no layover now And I'm not gonna be late for my 5

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a ... in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... office for 3 months, and established our hardware engineering capability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... all. Although I’m saving that topic for another post (perhaps when my ... times a month and probably will for the rest of my life, for better or for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  searching google for pictures of ideas for something to wear to and anything ... back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... , and are never something I planned on. Getting funded for one would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  over to the Google Cambridge office for another open house, snuck into ... familiar again. Even after being away for over 9 months, Boston still feels ... for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High ... ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted ... Fair 2008." WHAT'S TOY FAIR!? I quickly did some Google searches I found ... trademarked name uses all capitals for TOY FAIR) is one of a few major toy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... -confirmed psychic, the tragic fate I had predicted for myself had unfortunately come ... blood oath I had taken to extort myself for the next five years towards an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut ... darlings for nothing! sometimes the work you do, whether it's writing, music

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking ... exactly what I love to do. In my very first post, I set sidequests for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... , California on January 4th. For the first couple days we went exploring! For my parents that entailed going to many malls and a bus tour. But for me that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  the subject line (it helps Google sort my mail). Read through, enjoy ... talks about fashion guidelines for people interested in that stuff, but I'd say that for the most part, people dress how they want to dress, there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different ... infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015