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• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  technical pursuits. And I've begun to feel a certain yearning to do something ... 'm also learning to play the piano. I find that I'm particularly fond of the ... (because I've been practicing piano). And I have a cheesecake to bake for my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the ... zonotope is a word, but wants to correct zonotopal to Zootopia."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... . Somewhat to my surprise though, despite having a full-time job, I have

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  deliberating on where exactly to place it on my laptop since it's such a weird ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  used to attend table-turning sessions where people would gather around a ... Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  to rival volcanic eruptions are also very exciting to see. A few ... with a colorful performance that actually had me inspired enough to jump ... the same to me, when it's a free concert you don't complain. A short

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all ... happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any ... feeling okay, I said. We scheduled our next appointment to happen after a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed ... that they would be erecting a new building dedicated solely to cancer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  ) that I was eager to learn Old English. In a nutshell, Prof. Bahr said "well, if you find a critical mass of 5+ who quasi-commit to take it, I ... trying to decide where I want to go. I'm continuing with my astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  . President Marcia Chemim opened the cafe to “create a space where people could ... moving to Boston where he took culinary classes, Nakapandhu owned a ... , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  this is a weekend where you spend a short amount of time trying to build ... College. We were lucky enough to organise a [annotation note="where some of ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  who tried to convince me to go to a public university, I was definitely ... (words of wisdom). To those who have heard rumors of a clandestine ... registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... perfectly matches what you would predict. So, now you know how to find a ... telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  engineering. 2. A shift in perspective. In my desperation to find my path ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add ... a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  find myself unable to do anything, whether it’s as grand as stopping a ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020