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  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  President Reif during Commencement, or simply walking down the street as a new adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , Megan worked at Google, where she oversaw Google[x] and Google.org, and as ... organization. As an MIT undergraduate, Smith was a member of the student team that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  , pull out your device, and ask Google. We’re in a day and age where you ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough ... early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... 'm practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... trebuchets, a handmade wooden kayak, little robotic wooden men. He continued this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  brochure or a website (or Google Street View if you're really obsessed ... 've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... flier miles would've been a good idea.) I spent the last week and a half

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... , because why not! will follow a similar format to Alan's post :) poems (18 ... darte ho by Noon Meem Rashid. listen to a very beautiful reading here

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long-term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to call it a night just yet. I got a groupchat message from Hugo '17 asking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... . Sorry guys. Hope you didn't have your heart set on a real, live, poetic ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Google in NYC ☺ With my sister now entering her junior year at MIT, in a ... Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , helped build a massive roof-deck, went kite-boating, went to Google (and ... -to-volunteer programs out there (as you will see if you run a Google search for gap year ... "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... sets a precedent for letting them know that they can visit me. ask my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation note="I just discovered this jasmine oolong tea at a Chinatown ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  easy to use, so I found a picture on Google as inspiration and went to ... example, and the murals that exist range from anywhere between a month and ... constraints, including a bar on [annotation note="aka murals that go directly on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023