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  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  room, and every laptop has a browser open to either google ... -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time sleeping." But then I had to be like "nah, I'm going to take a class that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  … Explored the Google store because Caitlin is a Google fanatic Bought an ... quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of ... defining moments of my time at Hasbro. That Friday, Hasbro had a Big Wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental ... , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions ... reading on. Set is rather popular on my floor, Conner 3. My suite has a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  , and a favorite of productivity geeks everywhere.  Just Google it for ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  need per recipe, I put them all in a Google Keep note Mealpacking Pack ... , Emanuel Perez '19, Caroline Mak '18 ---   MIT has a food access ... between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... When the CPW schedule came out  when I was a prefrosh 50000 years ago, I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a-CPWtime events and have once-in-a-CPWtime experiences! If you like your host, maybe

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  stuff", but as a cursory Google Scholar search proves, he's been involved ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... ). This entry is being co-sponsored by Diana, '07, a physicist who moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... (actually, it seems like a LOT of the people involved with Stanford Splash are MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life–choosing a career, getting married, having kids, getting promoted (or fired

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice, cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019