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

  

  Attending MIT. MEETING PEOPLE AND DOING THINGS When exchanging phone numbers ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends ... . Say yes to things. You will get asked to do many things. You should say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... -step authentication enabled on my Google account (extra security sounded good at the time!), I wouldn't be able to do that without retrieving a verification

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another ... research you’re doing for a paper, and almost anything else. Vim, a popular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking ... something constructive to do rather than getting in to trouble. In the last 25

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• 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 ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... project and what I need to do over the next week or so. 6:35 -- I arrive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• 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…

  

  Silicon Valley, I do need to admit that my educational trajectory to the MIT ... 't know what to do with our lives" is a common mantra among my high school ... of specializing to the extent that I would only be able to do one thing

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

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9 ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  do something together, and so puzzlehunts have a special place in my ... Rats featured this little fella named Zappy, who's served as the de facto ... living now? and What's it like working for AoPS? and What do you feel about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  to the present, and my lazy head now considers doing the laundry mildly ... didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... blast at the company, “doing cool things that matter”. After the event, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol ... do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the ... Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• 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 ... yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time ... isn't as good, and there is more fog and kale. And I still do go back

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  . The day had been fairly normal so far, if unfocused: my Google Calendar ... to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• 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 ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... had helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life, guided me to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... mentored juniors, got selected as Google Student Ambassador and met many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... helping hand - hey, we've all been there before! * Generally, you are doing ... . Studying usually involves doing problem sets (the equivalent to homework in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011