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Blog / Academics & Research
A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?
, I went to set up and run the activities midway booth for Chinese ... ; (True story: agonized over this title for days before giving up and going ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven -
Blog / Admissions
I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them
kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases -
Blog / Classes
[Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25
is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did -
Blog / MISTI
We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…
-taking fee. As we sat on the roof for about an hour, a sound crew set up for a ... pour concrete into its base. The tower actually ended up leaning even further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Atomic Friends a comic
in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a -
Blog / MISTI
The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!
miscommunication with a German ticket officer that ended up with me not reserving a ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into -
Blog / Events
Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?
Sherlock (you have trained your oculomotor nerves for this purpose.) It ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... -codes everything makes it impossible to extract any useful information. You give up -
Blog / Admissions
March Questions Omnibus 3
) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This -
Blog / People & Identities
New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)
below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Targets shooting things and hitting them
first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... it was a general rule for precision shooting events that weapons be -
Blog / Academics & Research
Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning
lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years, grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.
!), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic -
Blog / Challenges
cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings
??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a ... not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note ... "]four for cake,[/annotation] [annotation note="Humble pie"]one for pie -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones
have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... . It seems like Ishiguro doesn’t hit hard for everyone, but I’d still say ... happened to pick up this book from a store shelf and leaf through it, I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W
Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... for this but he describes it as easily the craziest four hours. They ... [annotation note="it’s a 4W tradition to celebrate the birthdays for all the -
Blog / Academics & Research
January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music
that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... .m.s.s." Saturday Work feels kind of like high school, in the sense that you show up -
Blog / Admissions
Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview
Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here. I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime
It's my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday ... RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!! For those of you who've been following the blogs ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait -
Blog / Summer
I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots
aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... community centre every weekend for whatever class I was doing that season