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Blog / About Decisions
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies
It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a ... the waitlist at the last one, enrolled, didn't like it, and ended up -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…
Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of -
Blog / MIT Life
The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…
after the book was published. In it he talks about how the cost of ... , People Talk About What They do All Day and How They Feel About What they Do ... and how they treated the person who parked their car. Thirty years -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Semester of poetry
enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... understanding how they work and being able to trust them. But it also means you ... makes other people feel, what it maps to for them. I like how open it -
Blog / How to Human
Setbacks head hurty
the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself: [caption id="attachment_92314" align="aligncenter" width="768"] notice how I -
Blog / Classes
a gcal september never really used it until now
things like how hosed i am, scheduling conflicts, or randomly changing my ... last three years where i really only used it to record classes. i frequently check it, because i know that i'm the type to forget events or -
Blog / Miscellaneous
What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!
have approved), and so this was somewhat significant. It turned out that ... shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it ... -zero friction against the floor tiles, it became pretty clear that the bottom of -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…
locking (!) piano room Steam Cafe -- no, it's not a sauna or spa Tech ... Washington Chilli Duck -- "if it's not working at Chilli Duck, it's not going ... top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list -
Blog / Academics & Research
Term time again
subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We'll see how that turns out. The application part ought to make it easier to ... know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Week of UROPing in few words
/Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of ... training to me, though, made me learn how to use this thing: it has two grips ... soon joined! To explain it quickly, we are using the art of paper cutting -
Blog / How to Human
talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice
even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... from wondering how things could have been different. Did you miss out on ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts -
Blog / Athletics
Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!
. With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... play varsity, after picking up the sport not long if at all before coming ... you just want to congratulate Crew for beating Princeton--Have at it! -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*
It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured -
Blog / About Decisions
Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…
only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I ... .) (You are passing your classes, right?) From: jess Subject: IT -
Blog / Admissions
Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.
, etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... my application read, I have to press it. 2. I don't own a time machine ... bit of faith and optimism can go a long way. 4. I've tried my hardest -
Blog / Events
Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.
long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe ... Hockfield: Other attendees (according to my handy RSVP list; it was too ... is, of course, chocolate. Lots of it. Including a yummy chocolate -
Blog / MIT Life
Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!
lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I'll be better off from it. Here are just a few highlights of what college ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but -
Blog / MIT Life
The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…
This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins ... I decided to stay the night, and it turned out to be the right -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!
the axolotl does not metamorphose, its cells are capable of reverting to ... you could tell it was one of those disappointing educational gifts that was actually picked out by the parents. I found it almost a year later