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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... . For most of the summer, I interned at the Berkeley National Lab on novel ... fluids in clay. We used TEM, a microscopic technique that can see at atomic

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  [annotation note="i just googled this and found out i’ve been calling it the ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... ? Honestly, probably at least $2,000. How much to have dragged 24 pumpkins

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... bought American sim cards at that point hence no cell reception, but we

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  (at least, not yet). That's not to say that the pace of learning isn ... psets and eating, (and sleeping?), it seems like I'm doing at least ... done before. Keeping a calender definitely helps. If Google Calenders

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  take the train back to MIT. So I look at it on google maps real quick ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... stop was a signing meet and greet. At Harvard Newbury Comics. One day

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... what is at stake/why it matters is clear in the argument you are making ... journals listed at my resource page at http

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine ... Google Maps. But [annotation note='Of course, there’s other ways of getting ... (outside only, no scooting in the halls allowed!). I used them very much at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  give. (Oooh, cryptic.) Since I went into lab at 7 AM both yesterday and ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me. If you're googling my full name, could you please leave a comment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  at MIT (but not the same, nothing compares to being here). Additionally ... to find a cure for cancer. MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," Mind and ... important to get your hands dirty and get stuff done. 2:13 -- At MIT you don

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  for the second short essay: can you tell me (at least three days before ... high school). Will the admissions office look at things like that? As for ... month but the rep canceled. I know at least 3 people who are intested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I ... at moonshot start-ups doing exciting stuff, even if they don't look as

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new ... Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it ... , responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and it comes at you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some professors at the university near home, sent out "cold emails" aka begged ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the mother deer’s three babies are concentrated on grass. At sunset, the ... and major, I attended a cake decorating event at the local library. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... pie. a few weeks ago we went to see a musical at the paramount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  right now, or at least at NASA. Definitely SpaceX and Tesla. Google and ... startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... someone was boomboxing Vitamin C - Friends Forever on the sidewalk. At first

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  have all the information at the same time. Or the amount of information ... . One allowed me to spend a summer with my family at home while learning ... to the Tex-Mex you find back home. Oh and also had a real job!  At

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  pinned at his waist, I mostly just ended up rotating until I was parallel to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at ... 't you mention GOOGLE BOMBING on your show? The Colbert Nation would LOVE ... at least since I wrote my biography for this blog, it's been my dream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix ... -Bonn airport at 10:15 AM, head out for Philadelphia by way of Frankfurt on my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006