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  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Entertainment. If you’re curious about how that ... first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  , mourning that minute of sleep that I’ll never get back. I reward myself with ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... amazing breakfast spread for us. I gobble down some food and bounce out of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and ... too :o"]2 days for Thanksgiving[/annotation]. Then, it's 3 more weeks of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too ... you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  happy to introduce you to MacGregor, MIT's only dorm composed of all ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries"; an entry forms the basic social unit of the dorm. The entries are named

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a wide variety of things, rice and not rice, which make it a worthy ... more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  recommendations for me, please let me know! Some of my favorite books are ... some sort of coding competition, like BattleCode, weblab, or Poker ... /play Just so I can see how this year went. I like keeping track of the media I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... before noon since Massachusetts is an hour ahead of Texas and I didn't go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh ... something right now. Here are some of my favorite pieces from the semester

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... training. Five sets of six core exercises- there’s a variety of these; push

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... without falling asleep, leaving me with a total of an hour and a half before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014