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  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you out. (note: turns out that's impossible, you can't fit 100 dimples with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... the Panama Canal Zone, at the time an American enclave filled with ... hold treasured memories, I can’t revisit or reconnect with the people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... spend Valentine’s Day with somebody on the same wavelength? “Let’s meet ... with someone in a romantic context. I was in class until 1:30 pm, then I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  class is taught under the MIT Prison Initiative, with philosophy Professor ... back to square one. I take this class with the inmates of the Norfolk ... similarities with their thoughts have surprised them as well. It’s a five hour

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it, inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  admissions decision. Surround yourself with friends and family or sugary treats and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... hard to think coolly today. Instead, distract yourself. To help with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... with pastries—cookies, cakes, tarts, crème brûlée. Any sort of savory ... . And with the sheer amount of people there, you realize that some people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my ... !) Ames Research Center is the one with the funny hangar- it's our north ... ! Currently, I've been spending the past few weeks getting acquainted with the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  audio engaging and dynamic, I would give an actual lecture - replete with ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student ... searched for key words so you can review concepts; you can repeat sections of

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  campus next year and hanging out with a lot of my friends. So what is there ... stuff", but as a cursory Google Scholar search proves, he's been involved ... to dinner at his home, Gray House, with him and his wife. You know, his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  former Rush chair for MacGregor, agrees with me. One question I hear ... actually interacting with the people and culture of the places in real life ... analogy I used recently with a friend. I'm still not sure if it works but he

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Asia, but I thought I'd share with you some photos from my trip. The ... miss. At the Sriracha Tiger Zoo (where I had some issues with their ... Malaysia, it was off to Hong Kong. Here's me atop the Peak in Hong Kong, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Harvard, and me :) I'm really excited to be working with this group this ... , even though I only really started working with this group at the end of ... is highly motivated by a sense of purpose and working with other people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... had the chance to work with the actual machinery involved in ... with shop tools, a refresher never hurts. Next semester is 2.007, the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  of Rube Goldberg machines were projected onto a screen with much ... soccer robot into other soccer robots with reckless abandon (all the ... intelligent people, gone bowling with highly intelligent people at 2 AM, taken a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  mode of capturing attention. And I wanted to keep up with that. I also ... assigned to one of five screening groups at the beginning of the semester and ... thankfully Bukunmi was happy to do it. I had a preliminary meeting with her to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... had disappeared. I was not about to take a 12 hour flight with no earbuds, so I trudged back out into the field to begin strip searching the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  stopped outside Elko, NV, and then waking up again with the train in the ... instantaneously into snow-capped mountains, shrouded with clouds. I suspect we will ... , no big updates. The train is slowly emptying, with more and more seats

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  if this had anything to do with me. I did not know what to do besides nod with feigned interest.  Later, the boy apologized to me for what ... Asian too?”  I thought: OH NO SHE THINKS I’M DATING A WHITE DUDE WITH

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021