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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the “dirty” dirt to the “clean” dirt--sediment found in water at this ... children at the school. The reasons why water sources can go “dry” are a ... -y way: with Google Maps. Google maps has some pretty neat features I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... the door, speed walking 9:38am miss the bus at 77 Mass Ave. 9:40am catch the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus ... interim. At this point, I had a space, but no equipment: no platform, no ... generic big-box store barbell/plate package at a heinous markup from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... Virginia, prior to starting orientation at MIT. Even then, I was still ... certainly weren’t present at home. As such, like alien spaceships and Mc

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... always no. (You can direct that stuff to admissions at mit dot edu.) 5 ... 'm doomed to work at mcdonald's for the rest of my life what should I do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -step authentication enabled on my Google account (extra security sounded good at the ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  attend the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston that year. MIT, at that point in ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

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

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

  

  don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your computer does disappear at airport security or die, there are at least 20 ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... my life. But once I arrived at MIT, it seems almost blasphemous if you ... 's quite specific and personal. I am slow at math and continue to lack the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... 'll talk more about that later. But at some point, before I started actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• 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…

  

  looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . Nevermind all the doubts people were throwing at me, I was doubting myself ... my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010