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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... 'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  up the stairs to get a higher seat since sitting in the front scares me ... about not being able to get the web app working, and I didn't know how ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... feel and create my own freedom in how I change." Well, somehow I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... stuff we did to have fun lock in this semester. [carousel image1

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... to hold their class materials. Professors: Three women in the video ... polymer formation. In her feature, she discusses how three major milestones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... day and we mused about how we'll never get a normal moveout. Last year ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021