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• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  single page, which did not have the information I wanted. Finally, a Google ... [annotation note="That is, a single Google search. Come on, this is the MIT ... . That term, "reengineering", is an actual term. A quick Google search

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy or shiny as things like Facebook Marketplace, or Google Groups, or even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  can Google them if you'd like to know more). I think a study published ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a ... .) This entry is a bit long, and without pictures because my camera is still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities ... Computer Time-Sharing Differential Analyzer GNU Manifesto Google App Inventor ... map of the exhibit... There is also a ton more info about the exhibit

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  google maps, the trek is one mile long, but it feels like a lot less ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  , nothing quite clicked immediately. After a quick Google search, I was almost ... communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  each day and create a schedule. I started using Google Calendar, and I ... here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... become sophomores, a significant percentage ends up moving into FSILGs

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... bulldozed to the ground last year. I also owe a big thank-you to Anne, who ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark ... SQL in a Google Cloud data warehouse Created auto-updating Google ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me

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

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is ... , Afrojack, and Alesso. A video posted by Erick Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 12, 2017 at 2:23pm PST A video posted by Erick Pinos

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... just like 6.2050, there’s a big final project that I’m excited about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... —which is a pretty common case for MIT students—then IAP is the perfect time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  can see, there is a biker on this route right now - Google Street View ... mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011