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  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a ... . (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... Station--either grab the Chinatown Bus or a Greyhound. With the easily ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin-Xin asks, "Hi, I need a bike (damn Simmons). I hear there are bike auctions ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... be a little more thorough than the average MIT student would go, but not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Shuli:[annotation note="OK, it’s been a while. Life be like that ... on the team “We Can’t Hear You, You’re On Mute”, a team traditionally ... ; shuli is from putz"]tetaputz,[/annotation]but which has taken on a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... , and you spend anywhere between 10 and 30 hours a week together

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Street, near Kendall (I think)[/caption] While snapping this picture, a ... ? You should write something about that. So on a day where [annotation note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a new laptop! It's a beautiful lightly-used ThinkPad T470 that I got off ... spring, which was when my old laptop, a ThinkPad E560, started becoming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room scarfing down bacon and coffee with over a hundred other representatives from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... , screaming for my mom. Muddy water pounced on my legs with icy strength. A few ... consolation gift she had promised me. You probably think falling into a gutter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  Hello homies. It's been a while, right? I feel like I start off every ... you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally different way. Actually, I had a week that was a little nuts. Shall we recap

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the

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

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  The fifth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... professors teach? Call me naive, but I didn't even *think* about this at a top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006