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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10 ... . Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a ... 've grown, I looked to the past. I put on my oxygen mask and took a deep dive ... November, the Class of 2021 was scattered and we never really got a chance to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... 've got a system. Regardless, this led to me disliking a lot of things as a ... . When I put down a sticker, I wouldn't be able to pick it up again or I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring ... be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID ... to have a set schedule, must communicate that to the hosts. the hosts ... -back culture to a lot of the places I've found on HelpX, which is pleasant, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of ... 'm ridiculously close to NR'ing it. For the past semester and a half, I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  underprivileged students. He eventually plans to pursue a doctorate in biological ... treatment of diseases. This past summer, Gethers sought a way to continue ... clearly dedicated to public service." Gethers has engaged in a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake ... really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a ... ; * * * * * * * here's a picture of my desk:   i've been listening to these two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  feels a lot heavier :< All this to say, I've been browsing ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... Sciences"]CI-H/W[/annotation]this semester. I'd like to take a CI-H/W that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in ... with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending ... , Amnesty International (MIT Chapter) held a candlelight vigil to spread

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  . I'm no Anthony '09 and it'll take me a little longer to jot down my ... get to help me think of a name for my real blog. (I named my old one ... to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm ... favorite band or sports team. But it can also be a chance to really customize ... matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... statistical physics, but i’ve also enjoyed talking to a wide variety of people ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... their bottle into their backpack just to take it out a few minutes later ... signature ribs.  Winnie is basically a carnivore, and I'm trying to eat more

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... these blog entries. I did, perhaps mistakenly, refer to Dr. Hamel as a ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  general, so we are looking to expand as a whole. We’re also working on ... separating our business team into a separate club, it would allow everyone to ... , finance, or both! It'd be a very different approach to the way most

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022