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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got ... our wedding in an ad in The Tech. The museum was always one of our ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross ... every weekend cross stitching or designing cross stitch patterns. I was on ... Park themed. I began by working on a HUGE South Park mural.  

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  create a system that lets them drive a go-cart. Now they're working on ... made to generate a huge square wave (40 Volts). There's a part where you ... 's so much resistance in the lamp. If the lamp is on, it goes through the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more ... . However, I am now on the varsity fencing team, and that’s arguably cooler

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• 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 ... ’t, you smear the colonies on the cloth and the petri dishes into their ... the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Prize official ceremony was held here in Cambridge - and, on Saturday September 14, all of the award recipients gave five-minute lectures (followed ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... : We only had 30 minutes to escape (half of what a typical escape room ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... reflect on and preserve cool recent experiences—makes me realize that my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... working on essays full-time, procrastinating on research papers so that I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... be called work, i guess. i’ve been working on puzzles somewhat. i am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  graphs were made by [annotation note=" check out his last blog post on ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  sense of mysticism. Sudden rains on a sunny day happen when may kasal ng ... . Getting rained on, naulanan, causes sickness, often colds. Lots of songs ... from Signal Number 1 to Signal Number 5, which are based on the maximum

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  cheerful people watch closely. Please witness: CJ plunging wildly.) https://www.youtube

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the ... start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014