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Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban -
Blog / Academics & Research
Back to work
CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 -
Blog / Academics & Research
I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.
Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel -
Blog / MIT Life
Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.
discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in -
Blog / Challenges
am i boring or just overstimulated?
with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something -
Blog / Events
science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!
loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of -
Blog / People & Identities
OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe
, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came -
Blog / How to Human
finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?
i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and -
Blog / Admissions
CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh
'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets
This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... -ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1 -
Blog / Challenges
Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !
writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room -
Blog / Challenges
The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach
One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza -
Blog / Events
Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston
I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really -
Blog / Academics & Research
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 -
Blog / Events
What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up
If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked
