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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this ... updates." I got a variety of responses (representing about 5% of our class), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from ... was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions[/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... ’ve dropped them from standing height. Once, I dropped the T27 onto a hardwood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  alum who now works for Google on Project Ara (a modular cell phone), (2 ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... 2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... . I had a mixed chicken curry or something. It blew my mind away – more ... deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023