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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... research experience - or any at all - under your belt. Professors definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  clothing lines were creeping up the leaderboard. At this point, the website ... voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon ... student at MIT had the script in their inbox. The e-mail thread that

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... normal class is worth 12 units at MIT, which indicates that the class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  guide you through the laborious process: 6:19pm: I arrive at the Tech office twenty minutes late; articles are nominally due at 6pm, so it would ... – notifying us that there's free ice cream at the coffeehouse on the third floor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  at high school students. Last Splash, we had 2,142 enrolled students ... uncertainty about whether or not to run Summer HSSP at all. We had Splash ... chance to, you know, grow, whatever that means. But at the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
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  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
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• 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