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  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... I'm happy with. I don't have a lot to show for my interest in AI other ... and over for three hours straight, with no improvement in sight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  for this but he describes it as easily the craziest four hours. They ... [annotation note="it’s a 4W tradition to celebrate the birthdays for all the ... resolved to come prepared next time. We had planned for people to go over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ...   v. i’ve known for a long time that i perceive other people very ... to conclusions without worrying too much about rigor. for example, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one ... mistake the latter for the former if you’re not reading carefully, but they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a ... for poetry writing, though, so there's that"]annoying.[/annotation] To ... them: I did jiu jitsu for a minute back in high school. My studio

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... . March 12, 2020: After my afternoon classes, I walk into the glass lab for ... prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  spread myself across campus. I stepped into New House for the first time ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... because it's been something that has been on my mind for almost three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a ... , and he’s suggesting all these schemes for how he can turn the fishing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... [/annotation] A LOT of anime. For somebody [annotation note="i still claim this, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... implement them as modules for Microsoft's open-source privacy toolkit. At the ... (snack bar, a fridge of cold drinks, and plenty of machines for various hot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... am not patient enough for it. project management - I'm gonna be ... lot about what the future holds for me, if I'll get to pursue all these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , to work together and find opportunities for both countries to benefit ... administration came under sharp criticism for collaborating with a regime that ... that they would suggest for the Admin to revert the current situation or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... mathematical surfaces. A cabled LOTR sweater my mom knit for me, as evidence of ... for my art and not let it get subsumed by schoolwork and psets. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... and acetominophen. I bothered my friend Sarah W. '16 for help wrapping ... since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... comfy little bed and move them like my biology intended for me to do. I ... start. Reality: The square dancing life is not for me :’o Before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever ... memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012