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  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... airport, and have since heard nothing. Legend has it, the bottle is still ... cover other things, like fridges or laptops, but I like them all in one

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... newer bloggers with older styles and vice versa etc. Their idea was pretty ... illustrated by Shun Liang for student, staff, and alum bloggers. This dataset

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

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... ignore that, and probably all the other stuff. I was so, so wrong ... Wikipedia blacked out, my friends and I celebrated by playing several rounds

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  1) that it didn't happen and 2) if it did happen, his intentions were completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... though, and it guilt trips you into believing that you settled for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  that maybe it’s too hard for the class and not the best assignment. I ... courtyard, only with more grass and buildings of a different color. This makes ... this reason. I listen to Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” and “All in Love is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in ... prototype detector. Under the guidance of Professor Bernd Surrow and a postdoc, senior Laurie Burns is testing and comparing two types of GEM foils that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday, but well worth the visit and time away from the office. I'm still catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  bike there after 3-6-0? Matt and Jose are going. We can invent a dance ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they ... from campus, the food is unspectacular, and the prices are fairly high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out, grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few ... for fun, and when I checked things out, the "just for fun" classes put ... in August or so: I hate physical chemstry. I also don't want to be a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Verde's (the convenience store in the student center) and bought brownie mix and ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... crams the information into their brains just before the quiz and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  They say, "You snooze, you lose" -- Kevin and Daniel beat me to two ... President Susan Hockfield, and Daniel posted the National Public Radio piece ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I ... with MIT (year, or year of application for potentials) anything ... them - I have slow internet here) and don't send me 5 pictures that are 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of you forevermore. Maybe I'll feed them to Kerberos, or something. I did

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008