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  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  a dress rehearsal. Still, we had one more excursion at the Cultural ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT’s hardness. Background But first, let me address a question that’s undoubtedly ... -Webster defines hardness as “the cohesion of the particles on the surface of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... oversubscribed. "I've written a few raps," Wenjun said. "What about you?" "Get me ... a few times, but he was never in. Yesterday, Wenjun sent me a series

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars   ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... Association. it is a student government body that deals with a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... assumption in pushing is that a force applied in some direction will result in ... yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  : i notice myself feeling cold much more easily now. as a kid and ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... office, the whole admissions staff received a same-day delivered boxed meal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... , and is probably the only one that I will ever take. It's a [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  What follows is a guest post from the Chop Stir Hack team. CSH is a new MIT ASA group that publishes a semesterly food magazine. It grew out ... microwaved food. While this assumption does hold some truth, MIT actually has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  't listen to as much music as I know a lot of other people do, and my tastes definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a ... things all the time. Like, a lot - although on this front I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has ... us occupied during a regular MIT day. Or, it's just what Petey said ... at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... me inside the two radomes (yes, that giant sphere is a thing you can stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  was a lot of feelings, but there's a lot of feelings still. too many ... , yeah, i had a background. this first pset is 5 problems long. seems ... think that's something that really says a lot about me. i've questioned a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  -wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... table?   Enter August 2016, Boston, Massachusetts. I take a taxi

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year, on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends ... . which was a complete coincidence. Other things that were coincidences: we

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by ... . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian ... entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016