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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... oscilloscope, it can detect, for example, whether a particle is an electron or a ... ,000 holes can cause the foil to fail. Laurie began her UROP last spring and

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

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , because Marilee Jones has magical glasses that can see into people's souls ... while we watched the season 3 finale of The Amazing Race. As you can see ... recipe; but don't tell Sam's Mom or she might get mad. I think it's a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... sniped me like that, but it made me wonder how much Gemini knows about MIT ... [/caption] Well, at least it correctly mentioned Metallurgy. But pretty much

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Don’t tell, but I’ve never written much poetry before. I read poem ... major focus of poetry. I figured I’d learn new skills that can be applied ... definition poem. Rhyme and meter got much easier. I still cheat on syllable

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It ... asking myself why I would subject myself to so much math anyway. But taking ... decisions about materials and such. I can just sit down and spend a bit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  . There has been so much talk about the loss of common culture, about the ... intense, and he told me how very very much he was waiting for the final ... informed so you can help your child find meaning in whosever death it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

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• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... . You can start your own blog. Besides, you spent like 3/4ths of the time ... .) Much to my horror, I discovered a few weeks ago that I was slotted to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... is: Basically, you get a crash course in robotics and controls, and ... about having my technical focus being on this one class is that I can

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... departments are tiny, I will now get twice the company. Oh, and the office of ... wonderful opportunity for a worthwhile cause. Also, we get to learn and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to watch it because her boyfriend gets more channels than MIT Cable. Food

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  how much I love/hate the current series of events, or praise ... member of your community who wishes to live on campus. You can learn more ... , you still need to fill out the housing preferences form so that you can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... like aikawa-sensei can."]late to class[/annotation] at this [annotation note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I sprint out the door and see if I can beat my previous commute time ... injured organs. My partner helps me get up to go to the bathroom and I eat

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  International students @ MIT (+life updates) Just a hodge-podge of shtuff.

  

  1. Watch this first: <br> 2. Watch this second: <br /> (Not much text today, because that is my cheap way of making you guys watch my videos instead!)

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . Instead, it seems, I can eat. I've always liked food, but now I'm bent on ... growth. It’s a gripping narrative of how abuse can affect someone so ... right away. Can somebody tell me what that was?" Czarnecki's tone of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  absolutely awful at bowling, much worse than everyone else? I don't have an ... eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more ... following: I never had to get better at bowling before, because I always used

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  them are meaningful.   let's get right to it! https ... , regardless of circumstances, get everyone on the floor hype. it was [annotation ... much that i really pissed Nisha off during Christmas break. i also filmed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020