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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  with self-censoring properties. How do you contain something you can ... listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... correctly, which can cause muscle convulsions. So where does EquiTemp come in ... rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  I saw. 60. Want to know how to say "Yes, We Can" in Japanese? It has ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... and the sushi rice in a bed at the bottom. I personally feel this is a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  up in an East Campus room was equipped with a laser pointer, a ... building in Cambridge, and/or the live Tetris game, and/or the building that ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... quest with friends in Baldur’s Gate 3 fill my heart gauge with energy. I ... sophomore. I’m crashing in Tokyo with a friend I made through inline skating

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... suggestions for me? A: I know that the application process can be really nerve racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  would prevent me from going broke, but what? I was already so busy, how ... two jobs (and doing a varsity sport). I maintain my sanity and so can ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  ", how did it get two colors, and in general, what was the process like? I ... behind MIT's logo, and MIT's graphic identity in general. I'll take a different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  out? As engineers and designers, how can we do social good in the ... the same man. Exercises in Style (60k words). I've written about this ... monster." "That's how you can tell." Demon (≈72k words). Content warning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend ... 's a math recitation. Eh, I can't understand that guy's accent anyway ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... ! I love trampolines. I can’t do flips or anything particularly cool on ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  machine shop in his house, "as early as I can remember, certainly by the ... have they done, and what do they hope to do? So while I can point to ... and she was happy, but I told her we can't afford it. Three weeks later

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  wrote when I shared that post on social media: "In Colorado, we only had ... 've ever proposed or worked on. I didn't want to think about how my entire life I have felt like an alien. How even my parents and my family

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... how I endured eight excruciatingly-foodless hours today while I migrated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to ... was very productive. (Dora points at how clean the room is) Look! I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By ... can guarantee that it would look like complete gibberish to you. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014