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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the ... is all guesses, all estimates - if you like we can put the squiggle ... personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... who got the result you wanted, and the you who did not. Up until that ... mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

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

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the ... throw out the rest. Ooh, not too economical--not gonna lie. The final ... nostalgia for the 3D Maze screen saver, because even if the little guy is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  (technically not during IAP) was the chance to celebrate New Year's Eve in London ... , sometimes known as the Agra of the South. Not receiving as many foreign ... see the Taj Mahal (no trip to India is complete without it). Week Three

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  dorms he imagined for MIT on Vassar Street; Simmons is the second from the ... Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  AutoCad, a skill all engineers should have, and one which is not taught at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her ... arrived, as initial communication was rather difficult. Not many of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  real science. I had forgotten just how awesome chemistry is. And the best part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of ... up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days ... holding myself to them too strongly. I want to start running, not for the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... n>>2. The preliminary calendar of events is here, and I have a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  the course catalogue. "Studies what is language and what does knowledge ... with evolutionary anatomy. I personally think the evolutionary part is ... .35 (Sensation and Perception) - Really, at least 2/3 of the class is about vision

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  -graduation paths. The only thing is, we're not at all sure how ridiculously ... , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and ... insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... :30 PM, also known as the hours when every single person in the dorm is at ... Trapp in The Sound of Music, and, try as I might, I could not convince the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , and I completely missed the presidential debate. D'oh! Tomorrow night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  " and "quirky." And now, it feels as if the world is cruelly giving me what I wanted and showing me that perhaps the grass is not always greener ... 'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  's work and calling do not lie in the theoretical disciplines of calculus ... . From the assignment: "The nature of the comparison is up to you, and the ... The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and she is the founder

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  .01 (Physics) lecture isn’t really a lecture, since the class is taught in a TEAL ... the last pset got assigned, I legitimately could not start to answer a ... failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably true that the workload is somewhat lower than it is during the cycle, but ... a broader audience. Holland is beautiful! I rented an AirBnB in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016