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Batman Picks a Username learn from him.
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Blog / Admissions
Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.
CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... professors is in students themselves. So don't be scared of them! They like to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.
hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry ... to me. 1 in 10,000. Black squirrels are 1 in 10,000. A .01% chance of -
Blog / MIT Life
I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.
pick up my vehicle, cash in hand. Since I'd been itching to get in some ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I -
Blog / MIT Life
An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow
want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... East Campus devotes annually to bad ideas. Events in swing: grilling in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Advising @ MIT The little question that could.
students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... and Design, so if you're interested in how biology can inspire -
Blog / Academics & Research
When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences
folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always ... the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and ... ’ll hear, “How many careers did you get?” and “How did it go?” and “Did you -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!
to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the -
Blog / Events
Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.
joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a -
Blog / Academics & Research
What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!
question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum -
Blog / How to Human
Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!
this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... to discuss sex and learning about ways to engage in enjoyable and consensual safe sex". They have a lot of information about kinks and how to -
Blog / Life after MIT
Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.
't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... getting lost or driving in circles," he said. The average Internet user -
Blog / Athletics
take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again
two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... this is also why it is good to keep the feet dry, and wrap them in dry -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester
forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things -
Blog / Challenges
A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston
but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were -
Blog / Miscellaneous
and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer
isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research
actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials -
Blog / Academics & Research
What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them
advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday ... to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...
to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’ -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is
care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed