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

  

  didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • 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.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Google Games in April, then What’s that Spell in October, then SUMS over ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• 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 ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Google dot com and type in “animation for high schoolers.” When nothing ... admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

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

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

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

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

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

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• 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…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• 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…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this

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

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• 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 ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... course, solidifying my decision that double majoring in Biology and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... the time left over after the inevitable procrastination. Case in point

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014