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  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  typed out the entries that seemed interesting to me. This IAP I trimmed that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... all 620 officially-recognized CPW events. That's enough for one to begin every 7 minutes or - more closely resembling reality - for 8 to begin on

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing ... forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... shake it off. I also enjoy the people. The walk to Trader Joe's is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note='their spelling']labour[/annotation] economics”, and jointly to Angrist and Imbens for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... facing towards Pluto to collect data. Once it's finished, it will turn back

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to meet, and infinite resources to discover. Everything seemed possible and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... , they hold weekly airshows to show off the capabilities of the restored

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  proposed to deal with an epidemic that is threatening 600 lives: one program ... helpless to resolve the inconsistency. Still, just because other people are ... start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005