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• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... who represented the United States at the International Chemistry ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  happened to me at that point in my life because as an overachieving high school student, I didn't really fail very hard at anything. During the ... , and got rejected from Harvard, Stanford, and Trinity College at the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of ... my alley. However, when I arrived at the Consulate, horror of horrors

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  storefront, here's one from Google Maps.   We got back to the house at ... Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... . Back at my bed, I suddenly had enough energy to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... can shake several sticks at. And my favorite software in the world ... steel container. In complete darkness. Walter watched, amused (at least I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had ... )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the approximation 0.00237769994 + 0.10368577 i. A lot of departments at MIT have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  ! What I did not acquire at the MIT Career fair: A job. Yes, usually ... last time I took a look at everything I’ve done and organized it into a ... Google that I am summer-internship material. I already have 3 jobs! What

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... _parser.py".) Originally, the website was built using the Google Maps API, but Google ... 's least favorites. At the top of each poop entry is the averaged ratings and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  ; We are also each assigned a classroom or two at a local public school ... example, 11.125 uses classroom.google.com because that’s what the high ... ;   At the charter school that I observe at, Prospect Hill Academy

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... fail. I could not say that I am particularly good at math, or exceptional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  your answers. 2.) Find Fun Google Chrome Extensions I have a ~lot~ of Google Chrome extensions, but my two current favorites are: Coffeelings ... my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  these buildings still exist, so we can just look at them. Charlesgate ... Dean's Residence, located at 372 Memorial Drive, is now Theta Delta Chi ... Fraternities"; and, besides, at this point, we're likely out of the frame of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  words. Couch space was at an unprecedented premium. On a tired whiteboard ... few hours and a few more false starts, I was staring at this with half ... , crosswording, board-gaming, coding, algorithm-writing, Googling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi ... . Google Gnome Game and its consequences have been a disaster for my ... , and butterflies make you float at an unnatural and somewhat disturbing

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... emotional roller-coaster) and again, while applying for things at MIT, because ... ’re a freshman, and NOBODY WANTS YOU (or, at least, it feels like it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my 39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... convenient signs above the hallways at every crucial junction or fork in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  note="I just discovered this jasmine oolong tea at a Chinatown ... that existed prior to college applications. Even at MIT, I’ve rarely felt ... what if the stars aligned?”  They didn’t, at least not on December 14th

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... enjoyed looking at a time capsule of my MIT experience via my Google ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  semester has involved staring at statistics problems and Google Colab. And ... Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... look at how the sketch is going. That's why some of the details and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... whether you'd like to contribute.  I make an appearance in the video at 3 ... finished while you're at MIT so you'll be able to go check it out if it gets

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012