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  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort ... open if you'd like to rant or vent or get out your frustrations. Scream

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and ... write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  applied to MIT in a previous year." I think Ben just about covered it ... probably be mailed in a different format, due to the different contents of ... faithfully plodding to the mailbox with a lump in my stomach that steadily grew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the ... committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority ... done before. Keeping a calender definitely helps. If Google Calenders ... would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  best to learn as fast as we could about the law in the short time we had ... be traced to individuals; that it be secure; and that police get a ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  most of the vendors in a French resort town to speak a little English, was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... day later, in which I couldn’t manage to arrive at a museum in Venice ... making me recall a forgotten phase in which I wanted to be that absent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  .") In essence, you’re asked to squeeze your entire identity into a couple ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... , it's the response from you guys. Getting your comments and immediate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few ... best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  silicon slides in a round-bottom flask. If we just let them sink to the ... Eppendorf tube as a flotation device, we tried to use wire to hold it in place ... to fly. I'll admit, I googled "get cape wear cap fly" to find this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  all-nighter over a HASS paper, decide to major in Mechanical Engineering ... to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the ... a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  a meal. I try to sneak in a quick YouTube video, or progress past an ... ' meeting, in which we open up a Google Doc and talk about all the things that ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020