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• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  house to work. This is not the point of the story, though. The point is ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  , which I think is okay; we don't all have to find community in the same ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... photoshop Jeremy's avatar to look more like Eminem. The level of activity in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  , because everything almost felt too purposeful. Most of the art I made was to ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... , fast processor, colorful. I'm totally going to have the most stylish ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  average in most of the programs is around five and a half years, but there ... to say, since this blog's title is not "The Counting Crows are Life ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... . It's all free, too. But the thing is, you have to move fast. Running ... 't posted in awhile, and hey, I don't think I was hired because I'm the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This ... time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... cookies, but in the end, most of the people are there for the cool kids: the ... burn up in the atmosphere? SpaceX is working on reusable rockets that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... Institute of Harvard and MIT, he's got a hand in most of the things that are ... , he says, is no less than to reveal the molecular basis of human disease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  the day after putting in 45k steps. This is the part where I say to ... October until the races in January which definitely sucked but it was much ... :( We both knocked out the half and wandered back to the hotel in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... "ENTERING 12" signs, which is hard to identify because, in the US, pixel fonts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  acceptance rate is 8.2% overall. Now, I'm not the top kid in my school and I ... that everyone has an 8.2% chance of getting in? No! The 8.2% is the ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... into the laces but that'll wear off in time. MasteringPhysics.com is an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... made me realize that nothing is unusual either. There is not much to say ... ’s a dining room, the chairs are not meant to be sat in for longer than

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... queries to make sure the data is rolled-up correctly. I don’t directly ... unwind.   To Ask or Not to Ask… That is the Question Well, not really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  my mind is so occupied most of the time that i can no longer focus on ... . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  most important unsolved problem in the field. I want to close with a ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022