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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : aka Course 9, my new minor, because everyone should take at least one class ... : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... Sheraton Hotel in Times Square and fed us at a $$$$ circus-themed French

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  's good at Google-fu, and you found something else you want to learn about ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... . Suddenly, I no longer had that excuse. I did have time. At the same time, I ... ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was ... the most part, I had to be at work from 10AM-6PM, Monday through Friday ... May hit, the summer was approaching, and the days remaining at my job

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be ... MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... through empty halls at night; a cappella practice; a fun party; random dumb

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a ... other people--or at least, not in quite the same combination. After graduating, I... Began working at a robotics startup begun by MIT and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... using much energy at all. And by locking their wings, they can rest and ... facts at a blogger meeting early in the semester, I left the admissions

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  ="attachment_68960" align="aligncenter" width="228"] i even have a google chrome tab ... moment[/caption] At some point, the hype died down. This interview by The ... 's actually kind of creepy.   Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  jump at any opportunity to go places. living in a different dorm than our ... still seems like too weighty a decision for a single Google Form. i ... surrounding choosing a living community is a constant in the MIT experience, at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them ... Composition (for people who were at a Spanish IV level or higher) and Spanish

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . At least not at first. Instead, what's there is this:   So ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and ... here at MIT. SOPA/PIPA could kill OpenCourseWare and MITx, two online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  stay over for a night at the Institute. Having heard so many amazing ... tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember ... nothing in particular, but sometimes I still pause and think, "Wow, I'm at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  particularly contagious at MIT - procrastination. Symptoms are particularly ... (mostly because you deny them), until the night before your exams hit. At ... Market is right next to the Hotel at MIT, near Central Square, and is a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  applications, writing essays, or at the very least agonizing about writing essays ... this, I swear. I just googled 34,000+ and this is what came up.   The point being: it's exhausting. The process, at least the first two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and ... about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving psets late at night accompanied by best friends and long, languishing ... engineering (?!) internship at local newspaper mit puns (e.g. “i’m excited

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my ... bubble. How and when did I 'grow up' ? I once saw a toddler at an airport ... instead because it's tropical, unlike the weather. Hey at least it wasn't an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  felt better, at least. Wednesday: Anxiety fest. My ankle and heel ... Google search showed that I might have plantar fibroma, a nodule that grows ... train to Harvard station and worked on my essay at the Cambridge Public

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Google Translate and StackOverflow. On my first day at office, my team ... mysterious and magical beings. (Context: I’m working as a developer at an ... granted the convenience of having my friends in the same dorm, or at least

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018