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  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Eric Lander’ on your resume. Raise your hand if you want to help wipe the ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... enough experience to pass on to the freshmen. Now I can shamelessly tell

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  pummeling an enemy to the point at which rolling on the floor laughing may ... to them. The teacher would lecture on a particular theme or event – for ... . 21H.406 quickly became my favorite class that term, and I found it to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on ... off we went to Broadway Station on the Red Line. I'd started crocheting ... about these days i want to see your projects and hear about your favorite

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... /watch documentaries and to write two questions about the content that show your critical ... —you basically use drumsticks to drum on a yoga mat to hype songs. As you drum, you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... occasionally those people will like your tweets and amplify them to a larger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  goes on. Getting all three to work together wasn’t going to be a cakewalk ... blaring in your face while you’re trying to land a crashing plane when ... . Then I focused on making sure the ideas flowed from big picture to small

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  mostly live off my credit card.) It's always good how to learn to cook new ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card, and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your ... send me your pictures and I'll keep adding them to the post! Happy

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an intelligent walking "toddler" robot. After learning to sit, bend their knees ... to walk. While engineers have mastered robotic arm designs, walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  lives back up where they left off. Next up - my mom goes on a mission to ... cover story. I'm so on to them.) I've always been one of those people who ... you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  , interests choose what is hidden and displayed on your profile reporting ... reaching out to me, asking if I thought the meetings went on too long. I, of ... expecting my team and my coaches to look down on me for taking these sick days

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  up to any class you’re interested in on the first day with an add ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points ... largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the ... online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  . Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that ... learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... just want to talk."]banging away on the piano.[/annotation] Ultimately

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  your heart of gold Ian) and my professor eventually agreed to let me turn ... really difficult for me because I had to be on camera for an hour and a ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... my brand new Goodnotes subscription to create my own digital planner

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... . Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good ... closer you get to receiving your admissions decisions, the easier it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  had to go to that info session, I had to meet new people, I had to go on ... On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... of intense workloads and the difficulty of transitioning to a new

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023