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  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] a graphical representation[/caption] What I’ve noticed is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  subject I never took in high school, and merely passed freshman fall. I can ... Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn rigrous i hope the exam curve is generous i know i can’t keep playing ... eyes Tell me what you truly believe Yell so I can hear your words Because

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... . This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the ... 's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  .     "... a high school where no one has attended MIT in many ... I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music ... this year. I sung along where nobody could hear me (hopefully), and laid ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design ... your own things that other people can use." - steve jobs   I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... departures, I realize that I can make an earlier flight, so I do the "My plane

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no ... least if MIT doesn't work out, I can make it as a backup singer.) Anyway

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from ... can't wait until then, I suggest going to http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive. At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... comment: where's the debate? Latkes are clearly superior!] and another Nobel lecture, this time by Wolfgang Ketterle (though I had him for freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005