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  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few ... Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Hall Team;" also, a likely description of our progress this weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  up early for school, took a nap after classes because I was too tired to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to ... steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... him if needed (for a fairly cheap haircut), or face the consequences on ... seizing on a canvas. The end result was comical for everyone but you; you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.” Fiction ... of emotions, broadly construed, which makes it a bit awkward for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  remotely have feelings for. So I ended up dating a boy (we’ll call him boyfriend #1) for a couple of years and told myself that, despite getting gas ... for it…right? So I did. I messaged my friend who had a friend who wore

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... my past two summers were spent in a variety of locales (take advantage of MIT’s willingness to pay for you to travel) including England

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  do important stuff like attending a graduate school fair, picking up ... Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary ... 't taken a Spanish class for a year and was trying to stay fluent by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  suite, but the 30-second walk down the hall was a small price to pay for ... ended up not being too much of a problem for me. Anyway, we were lucky ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  walk 10 minutes to the Brazilian British Center for a total trip time of ... community and its fight for recognition, then walked through a segment of the ... becomes a practice for ancestral connection. After we tried all the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] (a) Kellen's avatar. (b) CycleGAN output after training for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  may look weird because they were cut for a 40' wide screen in Kresge ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... develop at MIT, Kellen recruits students to take over these accounts for a ... A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... countdown began for midnight.  FIVE!  FOUR!  THREE!  TWO!  ONE!  .... A few ... a wise man once said, watch out for exploding pumpkins!

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to ... decision deadlines for many colleges, including MIT, are fast approaching, so ... California for Christmas, enjoying balmy daytime weather and good home cooking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... . At the Admissions holiday luncheon, we had a traditional New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  . Mother 3 A charming Nintendo RPG for the GBA, Mother 3 has an interesting ... Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... hours. Sometimes I play new games too. I have a huge backlog of games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  ," said Jess Kim, a senior blogger. "For me they painted a picture of what ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009