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• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my wondering eyes did appear but... snow?! I kid you not. It was snowing. And ... , since it is still October, and the snow was pretty wet. What is weird is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... , ooh, I'm super-tired right now, yeah? Not gonna lie." And when I'm super ... back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  face, he truly cares about movies, and I usually agree with his reviews ... ever! Alan Rickman!) and Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell always deserves ... ", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... .2050 – design verification, software-defined radio, and anything else that Joe Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  ."]MIT Confessions[/annotation] or my behavior when I'm irritable and you've happened ... head up and down to find some table to sit at, I found myself thinking ... here." And I stood there for a minute, laughing to myself a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... areas of study in math, in particular single-variable and multivariable ... independent of our [annotation note="i.e. the notion of time and space"] "space

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 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 ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... flexible highlighting, font colors, etc.) and structure which didn't match

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... of my reality and 'y' was how I was feeling. 'x' got turned into 'y' by

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention, by Guy Deutscher, and it was awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post ... ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... very kind and enthusiastic. Apparently, MIT IDs grant you free admission

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large ... email threads from this IAP, and I honestly think we did better than usual

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  've been reading this book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a ... style, my System 2 is being used. It's slower and more methodical. I type

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... math and my own abilities. After taking 18.02 and 18.03, I just wasn't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  next week, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls. The ... minute. Last minute people are playing with fire, and playing with fire isn ... to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.  

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... and the primary stakeholder (the company that hired you) felt. Final ... fuel to the town, and gives the townspeople jobs. Stan’s Life: Let’s run

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011