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  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which was good because I was up bright and early on Saturday. I showed up at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  played a similarly important role, proposed that we work on an emoji ... , started working on building one, and today they launched it. As I wrote in ... ). Users move hands around the dial to ask a question, relying on layered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... I experienced when I got on campus. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget ... year, I’m taking on a slightly different role. A smile forms on my face

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1 ...  (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of sandwiches and breakfast stuff) on Newbury Street, Flour (a bakery and cafe) on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  on the street or in the hall, data (avatars, game stats, points, etc ... carry this sucker around with me at all times. I bank on the fact that MIT has a bunch of people that will buy a new system on launch day and thus

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to see whether your ID matches the name on your boarding pass will feel it ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  played against someone in the back seat holding on the car ride over in his ... of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the ... . On the one hand, Moral Problems sounded like a really awesome debate

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  Sergeant Pepperz on a Boston Duck Tour I went on this afternoon with Tau Beta ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... great restaurants that I saw on Food Network and get mugged and do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember ... you did on the first day of kindergarten was color. Heck, all we did on ... passed out of 18.01 with a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. My high school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... .) Some things you might want to do on a visit to MIT include -- Take ... ! Going on a college visit without sitting in on some classes is like going

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which ... (pictured at right). Ever wonder if that spouse, friend or co-worker on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  a class on material that sounds interesting. Some students like to ... context for policy-making. Primary focus on domestic policy. 11.017 Urban Space and Society (M) Focuses on how the spaces of the modern city relate

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Canyon that you went down on your back, which started out slow for the ... the Tornado, where your group was on a raft that went through a tube ... point of practically going upside down. After the water park, we went on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I'm writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston ... energy drinks and naps on a very cozy couch. The exam still went rather ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021