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  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  visible on Google, so answering a question well on math.SE makes the answer ... Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down, so we’re doing the long-distance thing for a few years while he Googles ... I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  detergent 3 rubber ducks More candy than a mildly aggressive trick ... favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their ... getting these. It was definitely when I was a teenager, but I'm not sure if it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... "Write a browser quicksearch tool to make online utilities more efficient to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in ... semester has involved staring at statistics problems and Google Colab. And

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

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with our sorority sisters.                RING PREMEIRE!!!!! MIT has a very ... calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up ... , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... a week current material: So far, we've discussed early parks, focusing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  feels like such a relief. Warm showers are my second favorite thing, after ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to take over from yogurt as a daily breakfast? I got on the road at 12

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

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  comprehensive wiki, a huge google drive, and regular "cluedumps", or transition ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned--you should always have a backup ... anything lined up. I cursed myself for wandering through Career Fair with a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and afterwards there's a gigantic meet-and-greet. They come armed with free samples ... 're their number one fans. Get a picture of the pushing crowds and the buzz

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  a few weeks before our application opens, there are some things you can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011