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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• 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 ... you try to squeeze why you're doing this study, what you found out, and ... some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... . Every time I go home you have some new plan for expanding your lawn mowing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  with all 183 teachers to get them background checked, as required by MIT ... felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  referred to as Senior House, collectively) opened with the new campus ... worked well to alleviate the housing pressures; however, a new campus meant ... additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... protochess differs in the approach, though. The first step to writing your own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... enjoy using math and science to construct new things. It is safe to say ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... songs off-key when my data cut out. When I came to somewhere new, I’d look

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... is near and dear to my heart. You're right, there isn't any particular ... all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021