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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  Google docs as their preferable means of communication and meetings to be a ... new ELL (Engineering Leadership Lab) team in a Diverse Connections simulation lab where we faced this exact challenge. My ELL team has a course

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  this very pretty campus. It may not be Google, but we still had a full ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  miles away, a 15 minute drive and a [annotation note="google maps ... reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... moovit, a public transit app that includes bus and subway routes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• 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 / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  period during this block where we all jump on a Google Meet and talk about ... ' meeting, in which we open up a Google Doc and talk about all the things that ... COVID-19 really took a toll on student summer plans this year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  French. She also wrote a book, Les Institutions de physique which she had ... Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  —I landed a summer internship with Google, got two A+’s in classes I had ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  before the train leaves, google maps tells us that it's a five minute drive ... enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe ... , and I have a bunch of weekend trips planned for myself. Two weeks ago, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... picture, I drew them all originating from a single point, and with [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  ). The symbol of the New Orleans Saints is called a fleur-de ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  -traditional roof or a mezzanine, googling desperately and hoping someone else on the ... We’re already a month into the semester, and [annotation note="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have ... particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  59-minute walk according to Google Maps, but 40 minutes at a New York ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... this year, Kano suggested we have a blogger retreat this semester. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023