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On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.
Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and “hands-on”. Before I got here I would’ve listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or… -
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Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.
So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren’t old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom’s best friend from college’s sister’s… -
Blog / Study Abroad
Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…
It’s hard to know exactly how I’m feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I’ll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a… -
Blog / Admissions
Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!
’ve ever had, all packed into four incredible days. If orientation (a.k -
Blog / MIT Life
Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…
I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment District – Cambridge’s “alternative department store”, featuring a giant heap of clothes in a pile being sold at… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…
In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas-y – maybe it’s that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it’s that we never take down our tree… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.
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Blog / IAP
IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.
(I’m gonna go ahead and spill the beans: This is an entry about IAP. IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point… -
Blog / Events
A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.
camera a.k.a. the reason why this is my first post with pictures actually -
Blog / Academics & Research
Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.
heat capacity of water is 4.1 J/gm/K. As you can see, problem sets are a -
Blog / Challenges
The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…
Here at MIT, and – let’s be honest, since this is more of a lifetime advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with her shirt… -
Blog / How to Human
E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.
://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is -
Blog / Challenges
Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.
So I’m sick right now. Again. It’s some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I’ll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes… -
Blog / How to Human
Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.
So I’m writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts Program), and the… -
Blog / Academics & Research
All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.
The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to feel like one… -
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Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.
My sister graduated college a few weeks ago, which meant two things: 1) I learned the Latin word “vincimus”, which means “We conquer” and sounds like a house elf from… -
Blog / Events
Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!
[edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara ’10. Thanks a lot!] I read the blogs a lot as a prefrosh. And sometimes, one or three of… -
Blog / MIT Life
The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.
I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab report, a t-shirt design, a poster design, a UROP proposal, an EMS elections meeting, an overnight shift,… -
Blog / MIT Life
Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..
At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by-floor system based upon class…