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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... : Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes ... because I'm acting like it's going to be an integral." "I think I'd better ... Hampshire and Vermont, them being right next to each other and all. New

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems ... 's hardest problems: In a mathematical competition, 6 problems were posed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... fact. The first Harry Potter novel was rejected by 12 different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  (HERE!) on the first floor and is free to everyone :) Those artists who ... Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community ... . The center launches five to eight exhibits each year highlighting the

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp ... -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

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

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the morning? Going to Steam Cafe© at noon. OK – Maybe that’s not exactly the ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  some time to share some MIT funnies. These are examples of things that ... morning when I first wake up, I reached blindly for my iPod so I could check ... immediately after waking up. Simple tasks like adding the number 9 to 8:00 to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven't yet shown ... , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  first vector, somewhere, making a line segment. Then draw the second vector originating from each end of the first segment. Connecting these two ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  you were, for the first time in your life, too exhausted to write when ... today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to

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

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here ... objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... cleaner Cory R. ‘14 tied into a heart around my wrist when we first started

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  May 25, 2006

  

  Today marks my ten-year anniversary of train travel. I also just finished my first year of college. Time doesn't fly.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
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• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022