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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you -
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Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS
Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of -
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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?!
creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTe ... were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great -
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Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.
bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like -
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A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures
based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular -
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Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.
finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... . In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated " -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer -
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An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!
prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live -
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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out... -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
. And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that -
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The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!
from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog -
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An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.
exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9 -
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Life is Improv say yes
. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule -
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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.
undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring