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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  alum who now works for Google on Project Ara (a modular cell phone), (2 ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... 2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  T. ‘08 (“I don’t think it was from anything specific, just a Google ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... whale. A closer survey, perhaps with a telescope, reveals some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... . I had a mixed chicken curry or something. It blew my mind away – more ... deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve roughly a dozen rounds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... dumped all my bookmarked links in a google doc and shared it with her. A ... A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my ... the series’ 10-year run, a spinoff began following Matt LeBlanc as Joey ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  their endless hi-jinks. Leo de C. ‘18 You walk out the Munroe door. A ... Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... 's a pretty popular book. Someone made a joke, suggesting that this book

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019