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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of -
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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 ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of -
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This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.
second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... stations, two moons, one galaxy, one bowl of petunias, and one existential -
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Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!
In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands of dollars each year. I mean, never mind the fact that the set of -
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Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!
Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled -
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This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.
I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the -
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Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.
technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... not only your experiment, but also the lives of millions of bacteria -
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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.
A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the -
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A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...
dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be -
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Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell
of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of -
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Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud
“Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself -
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A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
video. It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word -
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I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.
year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... years of urgent deadlines (Test! Lab of Doom! 4 PSETS! 2 Tests!), I seem -
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If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.
! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted -
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How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly
has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of -
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bye (for now)
, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a -
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You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things
published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had -
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Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure
love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find