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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ... to Sam, asking if he wanted to contribute a guest post on his ... messaged him, Fireflies created a reminder for me to write up this post

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... entirely new to me. And yet it’s a completely different feeling knowing that ... to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... Bridge for a day to film 21? (More on the movie itself later.) #35 - Wait, Boston has a mayor? (As a college student who just happens to go to school

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you ... , talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , and maybe even these blogs, so the decision to apply was not a daunting ... “crusty’ seniors, my classmates and I are at a point where we have to make a ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... office, but finally got around to it a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, Ben ... robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... this discrepancy, we need to talk a bit about linear algebra. A common

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , until this summer when I officially moved to live in a hotel (aka Maseeh ... my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... altogether. Recently I purchased a bicycle, to help me commute to and from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... have electronics you want to use. Don't have a fold out tray to use ... serenade you with the song of flight. Have to wait a bit to get off of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  challenging problems to complete. It really has helped me a lot for Real ... is a whole new methodology to try and master this semester. Who knew ... packed, I tend to really enjoy the weekends. Luckily, I have a girlfriend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... "Write a browser quicksearch tool to make online utilities more efficient to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  , and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023