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  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• 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 ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another

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

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... same diff it doesn't change what you would actually do per project ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... , physics (2004).” These Nobel laureates do not sit perched in ivory towers ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... to. Keep the future in mind, but live in the present. Enjoy what you do ... all into everything you do. You’ll probably miss at least as often as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  of bridges, had to design theoretical bridges, and will continue to do ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

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

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

  

  ambition. I began by Googling homemade power racks and quickly discerned that ... a diverse range of exercises that all do different things. Yoga ... , first on paper, then in Google Slides. [caption id="attachment_56997

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In ... a black person you will quickly realize one big thing… A large amount

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• 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 ... 's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do ... anything from doing weekly setup and teardown, to helping organize one

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

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

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals

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

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... world can't find any students who can build a decent web page? (Answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... Web, invented by MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee   That's a pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective?

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• 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 ... hour, or (more usefully) a block per minute. From this, you can quickly ... to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... tension I had subconsciously accumulated in line quickly melt away. I knew ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• 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 ... happy. I passed out pretty quickly and woke up early evening. Ever since ... didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 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 / 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 ... Attending MIT. MEETING PEOPLE AND DOING THINGS When exchanging phone numbers ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015