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2.670 Summary
to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime
is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan ... Strokes) Top 100 songs playlists: i concur with abby's taste in music New ... toward the music I listened to (ad infinitum) in 2017. 2017 was also the -
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Are volunteer opportunities available?
At the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center), you can connect with a variety of public service projects in local, national, and global communities. The PKG Center can also provide guidance -
Blog / MIT Life
Time Flies And I lose track of it
stress from midterms somehow, right? (I’m a little bit sad that no random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to -
Blog / IAP
Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.
In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... let you guys know I'm not dead, Haha. Will have a more in depth check in -
Blog / Uncategorized
a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?
; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight." 2. n ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or -
Blog / Admissions
The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...
interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Dudamel On music and becoming an old man
"Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... in 2009. Yep. Definitely not a musical instrument. I got a little ... little timpani player. "He's the best timpani player I have ever seen in an -
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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!
closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a ... . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... “Essential Services” according to MIT Housing can be found here. Visit all 11 -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
also wrote: In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives. Whatever the outcome, I very much hope that in our interactions with one another, we can hold -
Blog / Admissions
Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!
now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to -
Blog / Admissions
CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to -
Blog / MIT Life
Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.
you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know? -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Being First is Important There can be many firsts
in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and -
Blog / Admissions
Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…
testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal about deadlines. Rather than give you my own "don't panic" advice, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.
As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water ... Kinsey & Company Microsoft ...and that's just a sampling. When I was -
Blog / About Decisions
I have SMASHING news!
on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious
