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Blog / Classes
How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity
making it interesting"]Steve Banzaert,[/annotation], I was fully on board ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
announce Regular Action decisions on Pi Day every year. But, what exactly ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus -
Blog / How to Human
real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community
="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out ... it boot up on the screen. i liked how tangible it felt. over winter ... were going on so many long drives over break that i thought it'd be good -
Blog / MIT Life
shifting seasons something reflective
mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it's been almost ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... semester trying to work through those emotions. what i landed on was that -
Blog / Classes
classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition
people here but i don't think it is just that. here are some thoughts on ... families (families of statistical models that behave nicely) and then went on ... new distribution (called the posterior) on the parameter. III. Geometry -
Blog / Events
dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)
"]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where ... . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville -
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the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again
“It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... the other with a hammer until something bends. I remember going on a ... into them again. On top of that, of course I know a small handful of -
Blog / Challenges
senioritis i wish i had no work today
tweet about it and it ended up on my timeline, so that's one positive thing i got out of twitter. as an aside, why are so many professors on ... . i'm doing a final presentation on abelian categories, and i'm reading -
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My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok
ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my ... carry in my heart more than doubled. The most secluded desk on the fifth ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night -
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LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue
not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... ’ll be running the show on your own in no time. Just follow the link on the ... projecting Knives Out on my own just a few weeks later! However, I soon