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  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you think you'll never be ready to leave and then suddenly you just can ... way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and ... ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... From: David Subject: Re: go see Junot! To: [email protected] He'll also be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... other people are working there. The best way for me to study/work is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  monster (not including travel time) and by the time I got back to the apartment, all I wanted to do was eat nectarines (which, by the way, are ... hopefully be able to continue into the future. I’ve only just begun, so I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  even know. I'm here to challenge all three of those positions. Being ... to grow complacent after being admitted somewhere, or to become ... so much to be done. That drive to achieve and make the most of any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the ... CycleGAN could be trained on the tiny blogger dataset. So I decided to ... ,[/annotation] so we wouldn’t be able to generate avatars for specific people. Let

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  might think), I decided that it was time for us to part ways. And so ... specs can be exorbitant. And there does not seem to be common wisdom as to ... advice would be to defer judgment, if possible. If you have a serviceable

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... this later, by which I mean, after I make some slides to actually present

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... Lab (way too cool!) to the "Meet the Bloggers" event (Hello Yan!!! I ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... outside information to help you. Of course high school can still be very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... to gain experience by working as much as possible, especially before ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... , as I'm sure Sam will be excited to know, the book mentions the Maillard ... visitors. It was a good zoo! I think if I weren't going to be a cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I'm so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by ... involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... -vital components until they can be secured by recovery. [caption id

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  would languish. That fear turned out to be completely unfounded. Yes, MIT ... be, it's an issue we're willing to deal with to get the quality ... returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... to stay! By the time we got very close to the ticket booth, we ... to see if they’d be able to get tickets. After 3 minutes that felt like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... what being sick has always felt like. As soon as I start to enjoy ... .A. I definitely made people go out of their way to take my to their house

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  Pennsylvania Amish country? Well, actually, I have, Mr. Adams. By the way, we ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I ... PE golf right up until May so she would be able to graduate in June ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  roommates were crammed into a room meant to be a double, a situation that ... to varying degrees, but I always felt insulated by the fact that my ... the art of being kind to myself, something I’ve struggled with for all

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as ... coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016