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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... life would have been like had I been born into a different century ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  , and because I think those two go hand in hand anyway. I’ll largely put ... since I was nine years old. Back in elementary and middle school it meant ... papers that really disturbed me. This reaction, I would say, was both due

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... would have if I had just done it now. Other times I try scare tactics and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... this project was to try and see how long the water source would last ... . That success would motivate further hand-dug well projects in the region

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  would call low-maintenance, mmkay. 8:40 AM. I consider leaving, then check ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live ... * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... , actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Admissions

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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