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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  kept an eye on the chat and helped with technical issues, and the ... schedules. The Help Desk for the program, which was on a Zoom call that would ... , I want to reflect on the people who helped make this program happen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... 've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  unfortunately didn’t help with most of these things (other than sourcing four very ... aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... munching on the starbursts I snatched from the dispenser, she had already cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... ’t, you smear the colonies on the cloth and the petri dishes into their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  together. I helped build a robot. The competition's today, and we'll see how ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  graduated today, helped interview me for my current job. During CPW, late one ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won ... industry experience (aka super resume-able). However, everything depends on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  the numbers on this one. Good job Andi, you explorer you.  Top Genres ... this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from ... but mellow enough that you can tune it out and focus on work.] Here's a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  Blogs) that helps students and parents identify and explore these aspects ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  clarity on an emotional level will also help a lot if you are in situations ... poster called "hookup culture" on entering college, and not all people find ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... needed any help on-site. Somewhere in the midst of all this, Alberto and I ... -written journal. When I was 16 years old, I wrote daily “diary” entries on my phone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... campuses turned out better than expected: I was a bit fixated on MIT by this ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... three I didn't know, one never actually lived on floorpi. They transferred

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022