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• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all-you-can ... like a blob of equations and manipulations with forces that I can't visualize, fields that I can't perceive. When I left high school, I vowed to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the ... my laptop back, and that was it. It was over. An ending can be as long ... 't emotional safeguards, they can't be. You can leave with your head on backwards

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  can see them if you hold your computer-pointing thing over any words ... -together time for this school and people who went to this school, but others can ... why it is such a hard game. Each problem can take many hours. Even for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  on Y?” where X and Y can be, quite literally, anything: the effect ... when economists can randomize interventions; that was, in fact, the ... , businesses can’t afford to hire as many workers, and so fewer people will be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  state that can be justified. Any state more extensive violates people ... Locke, who argued that governments can derive their right to coercion only ... how property can come to be originally acquired and transferred to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  , because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... lot. I hold on to the wind like I can't let go and hold and hold and ... control and I knew what I was doing and now I can see the rainbow glowing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  I don’t think I can handle anything Pi Day-related. We’re all headed ... % of the speed of light and can be approximated as a sphere of radius 1 ... don’t get oxygen until the troposphere… hmm. How light can I get the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  . something similar can happen when writing music - sometimes when i arrange i ... provide the necessary exposition some of these issues can be masked through ... results can be extremely influential. for example, the field of ai research

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . Not even his phone’s mobile navigation app can save him from his ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night ... look today, or I can’t keep up when my brilliant friends talk about their

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  .[/annotation] On the one hand, we can understand our three-dimensions through lower ... can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... this can be seen through the use of cameras; taking a photo of our three

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the ... for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , but ten times: my top five and my bottom five. Can you guess which is ... . Futile How can one describe the impression created by the flashy ... its plastic contents up and down in a discordant symphony? How can one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I ... times, so I freehanded the rest of the branches. You can definitely tell ... : everything old can be new again. As soon as I thought of it, I knew that I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  incredibly cool physics can be. I distinctly remember telling anyone who would ... that I have to declare a three-class elective concentration, which can be ... classes. If I feel like I need a stronger math or CS background, I can take

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... ! It turns out that even a museum you've seen "like four times" can blow ... a trip to Boston. I had about thirty seconds of, wow, you can't even

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  point, the rain is falling, things can't really get worse from there. It's comforting, in a way – when things can't get worse, it means they can only get ... MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  singability: the most important property an a cappella arrangement can have is ... instruments can eg. play scales much faster than a human can sing them), or ... fun, and whenever someone in the group likes a song a lot they can just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  , and he’s suggesting all these schemes for how he can turn the fishing ... think it’s mostly a “we hardly have time now” rip m: maybe i can’t help ... anything extra we can do on top of that is simply that: extra m: yeah that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  the right, we can see MIT's iconic Great Dome. In the center, as we all ... these buildings still exist, so we can just look at them. Charlesgate Hospital, for example, [annotation note='as can also be seen on this 1950

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021