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• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of yourself. It may seem counterintuitive to take a break from studying ... is tomorrow morning. But go for a quick jog. Call up a friend or a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  , starting from so much Google Calendar-ing. The future seemed like a dark void ... those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more ... .  It felt like a tragedy, then a failure.  Here's a bit about me. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  single page, which did not have the information I wanted. Finally, a Google ... [annotation note="That is, a single Google search. Come on, this is the MIT ... . That term, "reengineering", is an actual term. A quick Google search

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  for academic planning. Here are some essentials: CourseRoad is a ... a tentative schedule for four years, track prerequisites, see class ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  Google when I interned there for a second summer. I liked how it didn ... , arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot about a person from their biography. Now here's what we can learn about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  attempting many iterations, we consulted Google, which took a while because the ... 's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  from carefully worded Google searches), filtered, and hand-labeled a ... developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... the class. Given a simple natural image, can you reconstruct a 3-d

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• 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 / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025