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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  As the advent of another academic year approaches, I feel somewhat ... with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... the eyes of the torrent of 2015s that have descended upon campus in the

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  couple times after that, once at a journalism convention in senior year of ... anime phases. she visited me at the beginning of the school year, last fall, and we got lunch at tatte's, she introduced me to the concept of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  where the clan eats communally at odd hours of the night and perhaps a special festival at the end of the week. I was tasked with joining EC ... particle of mass m and charge +q released at the point (d,0) and traveling a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  at 18:53. this was actually one of the best moments of my life, mostly ... these moving out of my old room at EC :( but got a new one so the ... Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  reading the comment I snarked at Adam. I'm enough of a computer snob to use ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... portfolio of activities aren't necessarily coherent, many don't help at all ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  ” the same as “poor time management” is that, at the end of the day, we ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  courses on site at Jeju National University. Over the month of January, I ... industrial piercing that day and made sure I did not back out).  At the turn of ... over with - pushing me officially past the halfway point at MIT. (AHHH

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how ... A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers ... a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  system at MyMIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown ... up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So why, then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  of her language skills to use while conducting research at CERN. ... In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  : A - Schedule At the very beginning of the year, we drew up a weekly ... . (It's also kind of cool to look at it as a chart of what times students ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  period of two and a half months. * There are at least 14 different memes ... 't show up until we finally get a hold of a tripod at the end.) See if you ... Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010