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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . Printers would only print in black and white. Face paint and makeup would simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , it would begin raining and pouring. But it never did. I didn't have a ... to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... sustained wind speed. Different signal numbers would be raised in different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... one sense it gives me joy, thinking about how I'll be an alum in the ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... students taking it in our particular semester. I was put into the Tuesday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in ... to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  The end of a chapter

  

  that I would love to talk about in future blog posts! All in all ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a ... the gym in the EC basement, how convenient! 8.37 - 9:00 pm: I get my ... 's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  of us CEOs in our late 20s, and how everything would surface between us ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... family in thirty years. And I’ll be damned if I ever forget it.   ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that–kids. When I first met my adviser, she must have mentioned how young I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018