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  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My ... math. I never felt at any point that I was doing work; in fact, I used to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... very few blog posts I wrote before MIT, I wrote: I am good at math. I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... . There are big companies like GE and Google showing off their solar ... lead developer at WePay. And here are just a few pictures / videos we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... even ended up at that little brick school down the road despite posing ... , keep practicing. You will be making this face a lot next year at psets

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  . Ann Makosinski, a Google Science Fair winner at 15. She's been featured ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt. I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of happiness this weekend :) My floor's annual party, DTYD (Dance 'Til You Drop), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  -tech industry (at companies like Google, Microsoft, Linear, Analog Devices, etc ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... ://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/index.html (Above, Phil has some fun at the notorious .) One of the many perqs of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  at the crack of 7:45 and trudged the long cold route to the Bush room ... take is that the abyss = the climax, which comes at the end rather than ... glanced at the clock. I was near the end of my slide deck, and half an hour

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  going to DINEPA, or Direction Nationale de l’Eau Potable et de l ... lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although ... first organization we went to - we'd also stopped at CAMEP, a company that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  , and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... located at 70 Amherst St (formerly 4 Ames St), right across the street from ... remembers it. Whenever I think of my experiences with student government at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• 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 / 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 / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  and remember some vague things about it. I remember staying up til ... around Epcot and landing in [annotation note="Epcot is a park at Disney ... break, I spent three days at Disney World (Saturday-Monday), flying into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022