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  Update from Kentucky

  

  come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... blog, because it was at the point where I was getting 30+ spam comments a ... most of the false positives, and in the meantime I'll keep playing with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take) problem sets I'm responsible for grading every Friday, and where I bring

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is ... (which i will talk about in a later post) which are all fun! i am cooking ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  things students can do and has had a UROP in the MIT Center for Space ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the ... if there are that many sensations in the world that can compare to ... sensation. If you've never been before, I really suggest trying it once in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of those conditions. It is finals week, and I hate everything. In fact, I ... have no idea how well I did in 2.12 despite the fact that I spent hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in ... application and what you can tell us in the essays. Think about why you are ... , note that if you live in an area where we don't have any ECs, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  initial difficulty in getting used to it. I’ve also heard a few people ... contexts where it isn’t relevant. I imagine this convention of language just ... because it was thought-provoking, and I’m interested in hearing your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  serving the community - entire communities can pitch in, too. "I grasped the ... president at her high school. In her position, she coordinated a canned food ... Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... , where I am on a team of five students mass-producing owl yo-yos (everyone ... am on Tuesday morning I was having trouble keeping my eyes open in lab

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  competitions -- races against the clock where increased aerodynamics can yield ... about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... 's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, where he tests cyclists' positions and new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... ones where I know the founders. It really exciting to know their story ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... naïve assumption that I would be able to knock out this adventure in just ... way out to the Boston Common. With such a plan in mind, I met Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  've ever been so worn out in my life. I know a lot more quantum than when the ... Physics lab. Oh boy, where would I even begin. Some of the setup (the MIT ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  presence of my former 8.022 professor, I drowningly flailed my arms in ... where I wrote that div(McGreevy)= 4pi*(awesomeness/8.022). Clever, I know ... Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... were doing it. I’m a grown adult. I can decide when a comprehensive snack ... the empty seats had half an unconscious person in them that I really

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  ? Just post 'em in the comments and I'll update this entry accordingly ... welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. This will

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007