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  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling ... even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... her caseload and no one specializing in college applications, I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which we place various ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... exposed had that effect. But I was in a rush when I moved out. Plus I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include ... ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in ... forgotten in dingy, cobwebbed boxes and heard them sigh with relief at renewed ... alone in my room, listening to the air-conditioner buzz, my body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... trickled in, and sat down. Ashley welcomed us to the course, and explained

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  the Midyear Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... free to write in bullet points or more casual language. We're really not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... signs. (for the record, the first one spells out "ATACK 'MM" as in "ATTACK

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well-known book in 1996, but he never really discussed it and that was that. Fast

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... sphingosine, a) draw in all of the hydrogen atoms. Label each sp3 carbon ... pedigree [not pictured in this entry], which shows the inheritance of a very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... generate these signals in real time and feed them into the oscilloscope. The ... Tetris as a built-in easter egg. Putting it together With this background

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways to avoid this though. But I personally don't want to put in the work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id ... logo of my floor in East Campus, Floor Pi. The symbols surrounding the π

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this floppiness is, we must first understand some differential geometry. In ... surface curves in 3D space at a given point on the surface. Each direction

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  the music. Rockin' in the Wind Do you ever hear wind chimes gently jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024