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• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  La Placita de Santurce, a nightlife hotspot with dozens of bars and ... :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  a leadership summit in New York (hosted by Google). More about that ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  phone plan I used was Google Fi, because there isn't a surcharge to being ... and google voice chimes in and tries to help, like a befuddled but ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... finally went to bed, I was exhausted. I fell into a deep sleep. (Even if my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Revolution," although a Google search makes me think it's an arcade version of ... For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment ... solving the problems associated with creating a curriculum and breaking down

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Around November, a crazy idea nested itself ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab ... current InternshipPlus experience as a biochem data analyst. As I mentioned

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• 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 / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  alert, i merely use google calendar and a todo list. my todo list doesn ... , you know, i've already spent two and a half semesters divorced from a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews, presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  done before. Keeping a calender definitely helps. If Google Calenders didn't send me a reminder every half hour before class, I'm pretty sure I would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  turned to my friend Google. I found: A nice video story about Fleisig and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David Wells, who pitched 8 1/3 solid innings. After a Gary Sheffield single in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... point B without having to rely on Google Maps. A bigger motivator that ... which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  week and then get off early on Friday. That changed a bit this week ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun. A year ago I read Matt McGann's entry about some super-special secret

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... alone as a prefrosh, and my agreement with my mother was that I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  guys and only writing short updates. This makes me sad. So today I have a ... ? Uh...so this isn't really so much a fact as something I was delighted to discover yesterday afternoon. You see, my laptop has a removable

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 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