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Blog / Academics & Research
Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs
unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... things. First: some of you may follow alien/human (and MIT PhD student -
Blog / MIT Life
A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.
thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams...the ... - and I'm incredibly excited to be a part (however small) of the new Institute. To get into the specifics, I'll be working with Professor of -
Blog / Admissions
I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.
"that thing from the first five minutes of Good Will Hunting." If you ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... 're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.
When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked ... images of injuries requiring the use of these resources often danced in -
Blog / Academics & Research
DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.
this video we set up the first steps of the DNA extraction protocol ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There -
Blog / Athletics
World Cup Finals
yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment, but couldn't stand the intensity of the game so I went out to run ... possession of the ball. During PKs, I heard an Italian trattoria erupt and -
Blog / Academics & Research
More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.
to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest, grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that -
Blog / MIT Life
leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you
" over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... mind of the speaker and the listener, and miscommunication arises when ... when the end of the semester came I forgot I'd done that, and blithely -
Blog / Academics & Research
A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…
the study of markets as a whole. It's a pretty good time to be ... .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…
. Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... in the hopes of securing a game buddy. “Nah,” he said, shaking his -
Blog / MIT Life
Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.
Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... ): Check out (also: 1, 2) the annual parade of elephants, which delighted folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11 -
Blog / Academics & Research
If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.
conference they first appeared in. Many of the charts we see in lectures end up ... write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.
magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a magnetic disk. Here's the description of the problem: http://web.mit.edu/6 ... storage space, the read and write performance, or the ability of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible
in the first part of this series, that allowed us to spend our freshman year IAP sewing our very first fabric art piece! The people we met there ... first Visual Arts @ MIT post, we talked about the various extracurricular -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…
two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... sortof like LOST because of the interplay between past and the present ... before I'd even seen the first episode. Too bad the marketing was much -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!
your schedule. Easy, over, done. However, the nature of MIT lends itself to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... class. The first test was altogether not that bad for me. However, it -
Blog / Academics & Research
Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.
under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... list-y theme of this post, there are three reasons I used the career fair -
Blog / MIT Life
Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.
ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... -good the first week that Miles was home, but slowly it became evident that ... the human version of a core meltdown. NEVERTHELESS, we are all doing -
Blog / Challenges
Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.
out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the ... the end of the day, she’s been stressed out trying to keep up with