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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... a really nice custodian that would always come by around 2 AM that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  This week on Blogs That Should Have Been Blogged A While Ago: "On ... post some graduation pictures with some Commencement quotes and call it a ... right now, or at least at NASA. Definitely SpaceX and Tesla. Google and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  Intro [Gosha] It all started with a[annotation note="dormspam refers ... advertisement for MIT Spokes that caught my interest. Every year, Spokes gathers a ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  "]quite a bit faster[/annotation] than Google Map’s time estimates ... A few months ago, May.  When I'm away from you, I'm happier than ever ... Bluebikes bikeshare program, which MIT affiliates can get a discounted

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing ... -writing, published-researcher becoming saga below: ----------- As a general ... should probably not be like this. But when you combine a major revision

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  sunshine streaming through the frosted window - I was greeted with a ... . Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT ... German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  for academic planning. Here are some essentials: CourseRoad is a ... a tentative schedule for four years, track prerequisites, see class ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  attempting many iterations, we consulted Google, which took a while because the ... 's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017