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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  fasteners, to put it all together.  For example: I need to see if this pin ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  inbox once I had downloaded them was something I was well trained to do ... , then Download data: Select data to download. Create an archive. Select ... pretended to successfully download the file until the very very end, when it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  *t together learn to become highly-responsible, functioning, independent ... deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  managed to stay for a full game. :( 20. Go clubbing on Lansdowne St. - I ... Bank North Garden - we've been meaning to watch a Celtics game for ages ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep has changed because of–you got it–MIT. I downloaded my favorite distro

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  championship game. In the championship, we play the only NEWMAC team we lost to ... game was particularly brutal because we knew that we had what it took to ... Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -piece jigsaw puzzles all mixed together. I like too many things to expect ... without root access. This involved things like, figuring out how to download ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... was going to have me submit to the Student Game Design Competition in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  to piece yourself back together, on the other side, you realize you ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get ... hacking. Harvard Bridge (n.) - The Mass Ave bridge from MIT to Boston, which

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together ... burning any bridges. Do I regret the decision now? To be honest, yeah ... most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  tons of events throughout the year to connect students and grow together ... week to read the Bible together, ask questions, and learn more about life ... connected to people and grow together. I initially thought that it just

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018