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  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  away in a separate bin. Tap water in Cambridge is potable. That ... of a pool is measured in feet. If it’s your height, [annotation note ... how much I’m paid for hour, say, food is just so much more expensive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science ... Fest. - SpringFest is MIT's annual concert where we bring in a super cool guest (in ... resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... previously mentioned, a few hours before, I rushed out there in my sweats

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter ... was going to start moving in next. A few months later, in a [annotation ... .) Every once in a while—assuming I could actually discern the identity of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  in the Center for Ultracold Atoms (a part of MIT's RLE). The CUA is ... housing. LAW's core mission is now the encouragement of spiritual growth in ... camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant's new building. Larry, who is a practicing architect in the city ... a bit this week was how possible is it to balance the tough academic ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  may be familiar with the way astronomers talk about how bright a star is ... he's doing is moving his hand in a straight line: up and down, up and ... Your screen is made up of a whole buttload of pixels, arranged in a 2D

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  Urban Dictionary, Hell Week is “a situation in which a person spends a ... screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings ... in a puffy jacket minding her own business. Anyway, I was in high

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  world Where in the world is all the time? So many things I still don ... know my heart will guide me back [...] Take a ride of life with me Free ... The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the ... decided to join in, I let a loud scream rip. A few folks poked their heads

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my ... of the Green Building - which is, incidentally, the tallest building in ... Society, of which Ternus is a member. Long story short, Ternus explained to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... for the portions. Still, how can I resist the prospect of a random three ... , much like life itself, is about the journey, not the destination. After

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  of 2007, I'm getting a little tired of being in school right now. Not ... -year period. My own work paled in comparison, a mere 84 pages of graphs ... with a master's degree or PhD, from what I understand there are jobs in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every ... that people didn't talk about. This is a post about health, and my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... distinction.  There are, however, important qualitative considerations in how we

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves ... [/caption] Ed is a firm believer in the idea that every poem is a love poem ... , I found you in the dump!    Your heart is a clay pot whose

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022