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  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... : Underwear Color by Non-Dorm Living Group      I just checked out Harry Potter ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... out with). Nevertheless, sometimes the bursts result in two non ... around in the water.) To keep from drying out, pairs of Pockets have begun

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink ... , actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided ... can see in my drawings, the dragon hilt is quite sculptural, but also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... test it out. I’m not sure why Larry took the drone the beach, as opposed

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... the best—things have a crazy habit of working out in the end in world of ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  here: I don't want to stress you out. A lot of you won't be interested in ... because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... Iron Man, check out this article in NewScientist. If you saw the movie ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... , and luge. And I can imagine each team that submitted their own board

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018