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  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  my body now hurts everywhere because I kept falling on my face. (Just ... on and it felt wrong to pull out my laptop (under my seat) and blog ... , so I finally have a chance to update you on what happened. The banquet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... things, but I was only met with radio silence. At that time, I was on ... particular, one of the strongest memories was overlooking the view on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  through its actions what is most important. But MIT has also affected me on ... grass is truly greener on your side of the fence. Just the belief that it ... be won if you stay focused on what matters most and your emotions and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  phase where I wanted to go into cybersecurity but I went on this trip to ... they should put on the team, and one of the tests was themed Anatomy & Physiology. There was this guy I had a crush on who was also trying out, so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It ... photato,' based on my dad's phonetic spelling one year, which my sister and ... sister and I would provide very little help—we’d work on our schoolwork

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  that winning wasn't straightforward and that doing well depended on the ... clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... . This gave me a final score of 220. Based on their point allocations, MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

   goodness don’t get me started on how atrocious the units of measurement are here ... ="Celsius, of course"]subzero,[/annotation] tiny bits of ice form on the sidewalk. I mean, ice! On the sidewalk! I later asked a friend if my snot would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... dream on some small level, then really, why am I doing this at all? Others ... those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  , foreign movies, mindless/escapist movies, deep meditations on the human ... dude's genetic identity! Panel reaction: Roy on plot: "The whole ... on the musical score: "They overused the theme. Everything involving

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Europe. I spent my days capturing the effect of surface tension on ... , munching on macarons. The following summer I obtained a PSC Fellowship to spend 3 months working on a portable water project in the small community

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  appear on the sac-table*, and everyone will help themselves. *"Sacrificial ... Systems lab, working on satellite controls with a grad student. She also ... on your way back to the lounge, amazing opera floats out the door

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  they keep on failing, but the biggest lesson that I learned this semester ... blanket in the cabinet near my desk because I nap on the lab couch so much ... - which I'm really happy about :P) The worms live on petri-dishes and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  i knew before i arrived on campus was one composed through admissions ... actual humans based on their perceived intelligence usually by strawmaning ... emphasis on intelligence over kindness in general. i'm not sure way too much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  to write an essay on the most significant challenge on that essay being ... ourselves.  Those two weeks in the Philippines changed my outlook on Filipino ... on Filipino lifestyle and culture forever.  The students in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  wallet that much, I’ve decided to monetize my hours spent gushing on all my ... York, and yes it was my fault but I’m still going to hate on the food I ... made me sad. the ramen was flavourful if not on the saltier side, and the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... it on a shelf, I would If I could explain myself, I would Let me ... others, they lay with me. What matters to me, then? I was stuck on this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  clubs or doing extracurriculars. It wouldn’t be the same as on campus, so ... note="on average 7 hours a day? could be better but not bad ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  what I spend on has helped me get more value from the things I have ... me spend on the things that are actually important to me.  --- Knowing ... something to use it on." My internet history was full of amazon doodads, my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... ’t find the time. I’ve been working on a new project, and I’m writing a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  $5 lasers and mirrors you can find on Amazon, we use the “Quantenkoffer ... hard on your equipment) can throw off the entire system. (Ironically ... " (circuits that store quantum information), operations on one qubit affect all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025