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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... Inventing the Charles River.   At the time, the land in Cambridge was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til ... better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the ... lecturer, and the classroom was full at about twenty students. Even on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... -complete search feature easily transforms Google from a resource-filled virtual classroom into the hyperactive-kid-infested ball pit at Chuck

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... believe, that possibly, maybe, I heard about somebody at MIT who had a ... played Guitar Hero, this person must be, by far, the coolest person at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  halls. Google pulled a very EC stunt in setting up a roller coaster inside ... products ranging from Google beanies to Google Homes (the device not an actual Google house) to anyone willing to wait two hours in the line (not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  [/annotation] in Building 45 at 11 am. Building 45 has a beautiful glass exterior ... run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... at 10 am. I spend the rest of my time getting ready, reading my emails

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  the border, stayed at an AirBnB, and spent the weekend doing very ... split into two; one group wandered off to look at the trinkets, and the rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  contacts (stored by Facebook and/or Gmail) My calendar (stored by Google Calendar) My other documents (stored by Google Docs) My other music ... (stored either by Steam or online at the Humble Bundle)  I love

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  the show. people had submitted ideas via a Google Form, and we went ... set, which we typically perform at the Boston show in Fall. this year ... , our presidents were on the team at the time and so they're able to teach

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  've been using all the programs listed below for at least the past year and ... doesn't feel too powerful at first but once you have a lot stored on ... OneNote, Google Keep     Streaming Music: Spotify I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... who asked me about life at MIT, Life & Culture is a great tag. And ... -organized, friendly-looking, and provides a thorough overview of life at MIT and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  wacky architecture, there's a large presence of dorm culture at MIT. In ... repeated itself. I called my boyfriend at the time and started researching ... BEHIND MY BACK?? At this point, I'm basically freaking out because my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  . Or at least I was pretending I was calm, cool and collected, but in ... whole reason I was in Paris was to work at Institut Curie, a biomedical ... spoke both French and English at work. [] Here is my lab building at

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... du Conseil - Room for the Observatory's Directing Council, featuring portraits of past directors (Laplace seen at left) and Louis XIV, who had the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ’ve been here for two years. At real college, not imaginary internet college ... can change. At home, the closest I came to checking the weather was ... see, I was incredibly weather-spoiled at home. So far, though, the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don ... .1200[/annotation] midterm that ended at the event start time, so when I got there ... the class I’m worst at), it became clear to me that our friends who we

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  definitely when Carrie says "Google dot com". Twice, in one 2004 episode. As in, "According to Google dot com, he had many lovers." This makes me go "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  DuPont gym (which has a huge area for gymnastics and basketball, and ... deposit), and can enter a lottery for a locker in the DuPont locker room. Oh! and I almost forgot to mention that the DuPont locker room has brand new

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the ... -eyed from staying up til four am. I'm so thankful that I've touched so many spaces at MIT, and that those spaces hold room for me to be and to grow. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024