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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  attend the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston that year. MIT, at that point in ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

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

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

  

  don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your computer does disappear at airport security or die, there are at least 20 ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• 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 ... my life. But once I arrived at MIT, it seems almost blasphemous if you ... 's quite specific and personal. I am slow at math and continue to lack the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still-young-but-growing MIT looked at its student life and found it lacking. Here, the greatest ... Mens et Manus motto—but the element of camaraderie was noticeably absent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• 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…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

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

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... 'll talk more about that later. But at some point, before I started actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• 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…

  

  looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Nevermind all the doubts people were throwing at me, I was doubting myself ... my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center

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

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... line for, order, and purchase a cheese sandwich at the Stata Center

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  . E.T. '20 I had just gotten rejected from Caltech earlier that week ... look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... convinced I wouldn't get in because I wasn't even in the top 10% at my school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate. At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Med, or at least google scholar. (Xkcd 2007). I know, it sounds quite ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... fact, that at times it will irrefutably convince you that it is not

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... the morning than he did, because he started at Mattapan at [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... : Part 2, written in late freshman spring, got really dark at the end, then ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are ... , necrosis, and autophagy. My project looks at a protein, humanin, that ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012