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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 -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
, first on paper, then in Google Slides. [caption id="attachment_56997 ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that -
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Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions
, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the -
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Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere
huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my -
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My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months
'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak