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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later, and erase it all immediately after. Then I got here. I’ve quickly learned that even GIR classes want you to do more than use the equations

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• 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 ... ever should, using my right index finger alone. Take, for instance ... daily existence, turns to Google and utters through his eternally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to ... We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in ... documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  EC history, but it quickly became obvious to me this was not a problem ... ; you can perceive him here.'][/annotation] of course, we had to solve it ... was one main solution method, and we could apply it to all the puzzles

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  the rest of the center, before heading home to type it all up. Another ... , typed it all up, and submitted a rough 500 words to my professor. The ... struggling to string it all together to make one coherent narrative. That said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it ... , but that's not what this is about. I typically use my FitBit to check ... ="66035" /] Google Calendar Uses: Event organization, time blocking, scheduling I won

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be ... ? (...) As it turns out, this was a surprisingly difficult question to answer ... , Googled the answer, and gone back to our work. But instead, the conversation

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  can choose to make some crazy meal (and have the time to do it). In the ... dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  frames or ⅔ seconds. Pretty confusing, but you’ll get used to it relatively ... Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label ... would be the line tool, selected here: Use it to make straight lines

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for ... deadline, so we knew we wanted to do it in our senior year IAPs, and we did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between ... misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...   ... to take cruft again and make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor. drop - (1) v. To de-register for a subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 ... out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently ... opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do

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

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... ?" "You're RIGHT! THAT HAS TO BE IT!" [Spend 20 minutes looking up Latin ... relation?" "Maybe they aren't years. Maybe it's an index? Maybe we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https://scripts-cert.mit.edu/~paniagua/tempdorms/index

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three ... taking one, so I wrote a blog about it. You can read that here. I just ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... coin, it warps and enlarges. Professor Yew then attempts to use it in a ... 're called answer call-ins tells about their history. It used to be the case

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just ... independently. However, applied to drawing, I can look at how the adjustment of ... . Instead, our class used mostly-monotone pencil, crayon, and charcoal. It was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... extra time.) Still, it's not like the test is going to say "Refer to pg ... your ability to use what you understand about a process to derive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005