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• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling ... ???" MIT does have at least a three day weekend every month (see last weekend ... "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of ... brass rat.) Saturday morning, our alarms rang at 5:30, so that we could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... fail. I could not say that I am particularly good at math, or exceptional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do because it’s not real). At this point, I’m somewhat convinced that quantum ... at point B sometimes”? Truly statements dreamed up by the utterly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... ="alignleft" width="363"] two of our members at retreat last autumn[/caption] [caption

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an allele’ at 2 am, six hours before pset is due*) 21M.294 (Popular Music of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with ... listen closely you should be able to hear the laughter coming from 3-107 at ... with Google's directive of "Don't be evil." It's a refreshing honesty

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  internships at Facebook and Google. Maybe there's a chance I can get an ... brother, a senior at UC Berkeley, and ask for help. As I wait for him to ... 15 or 6, but at least I have some more things to put down. My resume is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• 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 / 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