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  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  relief and joy in knowing that the day ahead of you has suddenly cleared ... emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... snowmen and drinking hot chocolate and feeling alive in spite of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  of November, The gunpowder mischief and hack. I know of no reason why ... the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across the board, people have been a little hosed here the last week and a half ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the entrance pictured as something you'd just waltz into, and the rest of the ... through cracks, or over the top of chasms that you could look into and see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  writing class, and eventually found myself emailing the professor of 21W.755, Reading and Writing Short Stories. On the first day of class he made it ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... chairs on one of the docks on the Esplanade and sat there watching the ... 'know, advertising.   And snce I didn't take a picture of the Bruegger's Bagels

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... the book. Although I liked the concepts of the book–sentient cities and ... every now and then he lends me a book to read about the philosophy of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  the first row of the mezzanine. Afterward, it was time for some fine ... , ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  tasked with designing their class’ Brass Rat and organizing all of the ... the first big event held by RingComm, in which they unveil and explain ... different elements of the ring design and how they came together to make a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... be a lot of fun, and I was finally able to see the faces behind some of ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... another taco that I don’t remember the name of, but it probably had beef and ... Office of the First Year hosts around two or three lunches with professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  production of the cells. Bryan has been at the BPEC for six months and found ... Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  mildly dehydrated during the first few weeks of college simply because I ... file them if he did, he’s the type of machine to try and fly under the ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first ... got bored of the same food every day).  And all those meals above?  They ... Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... with learning goals and the availability of these systems, and * include ... instructors read about the capabilities and limitations of AI and LLMs. To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  storage space, the read and write performance, or the ability of the ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as ... and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of ... feeling great about the successful applicants and miserable about all of the ... bloggers of class year, residence, and activities. With the sad stuff out of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers ... once rode my bike to the Square. And decided to walk the rest of the way, to see the homes and streets lined in the oceans of Fall. Pigeons

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at ... -stand-in blogger Harvey), Mayhem (the team of fellow Ducksberrian Lisa and Lex from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  /convenience stores on campus, lunch at one of the lunch dining halls, and, since my ... great quantity of snack food from the convenience store on the first floor ... the perks of MIT being a fairly small school), and in most dorms it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006