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  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  other universities up the river... Harvard-1997 No way would I ... . If I didn't know any better I would've called that a fake. It doesn ... in technology, including things like iPods. Apple-2001

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... . If you are in the regular action pool (regular action applicant or early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  (and around) MIT so I thought I would bring it back with something I ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... doing magic in that Papa Smurf Lab(I think that's what it's callled? Idk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... City, where I live in an apartment in the Lower East Side. Every night, I ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss

  

  Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  last year (and I'm pretty sure she specialized in geobiology... I hope I got that right), AND I'm trying to do more new things in college ... September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up ... : ... i just realized this puzzle has two lucky charms in it. Update #10 (8

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the barstools never got made. In fact, the lumber is still stacked in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... terrified about saying anything for fear I would expose the fact that everyone ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... 150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured ... . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  . Anyway, I wondered if I could somehow jog fast enough that the sunset would be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... -screen interactions between the Friends, and I'll release that sometime in the future ... what episode/season the quote occurs in. I used Python libraries Num

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is ... around with it. A good exercise would be to paste in an image (ctrl+v to paste from clipboard) and trace it like I've done here in red with this

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my ... /applicable to anything I do in the future. That's it for now - planning on ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  . I thought it would be better to hone my intelligence in one or two ... . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails from Zimbabwe, in the first three days that I met him in person. In fact

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  in full supply. I am sitting in my palatial room in East Campus as I ... open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012