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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... Munroe does more than draw comics: he recently published a book

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... credited. In fact, it's a rather well-known phrase here: MIT is like drinking from a firehose. Now that I look back on it, that letter was asking me if

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of students roaming around. Those that are really intensely looking for a job

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  wearing a Google shirt and on the back it said "I'm Feeling Lucky!" I took ... 't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have ... : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting ... semisweet chocolate and tossed it into her chocolate cookie recipe. I had a ... Ray meal that consisted of a chicken hamburger topped with chorizo and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... shoes looked a little lonely and abandoned that morning, so I went back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  school, with a graphic visual of an [annotation note="Not that I use Google ... of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... next. Through out all this switching around, I also started a new UROP ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... backpack that consisted of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!“ (I’m doing a personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an ... have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these ... 's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  Internet user calls up a Web search service such as Google or Dogpile. Her ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle Solver: Radia Perlman's determination helped make Web surfing a reality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  . Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google ... from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... — indicates a spot of high photo density and a clump of memories. here are some

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each year with a cute new cover! This year, mine (the one on the right), had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017