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  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale, where I got a table at a Chinese restaurant called Seven Woks. If you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  From Star Simpson '10: Nando Paniagua '10 manually created this database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  in his analysis of state power (1980): [The state] stores and can ... broadband providers and the FCC. Going farther back in time, we can consider ... content moderation in ways that apply here as well. And I intentionally say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Tuesday Toy Design Presentations So, let's see, where does that put me? I ... Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you the "Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time" crap

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... 11 last Wednesday, on Leap Day. I’m turning 20 in less than two weeks

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap ... can't see anything in any direction. It's claustrophobic, yet I feel ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... tomorrow at about 3 pm and I'd appreciate a cheering section. I can't make ... to try and find an easier way to consume bread. Perhaps if I dunk it in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative, but also exhausting - I actually fell asleep while writing this last ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied ... genre. I was clearly inspired. Really, really inspired. What can I say ... " to "Salsa Dancing". Students in grades 9-12 can sign up for classes and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at

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

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  my Astrophysics pset (I typed up answers in LaTeX.) So, I doubled back ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  . Last week, I had an interview where my interviewer argued that MIT ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  -nighter I pulled finishing a problem set I could have easily done in two hours ... nothing about where I came from or who I became here. It omits how I met ... student, which I wrote in my first entry here, even though I wasn't really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005