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Blog / Residential Life
Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...
Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs
I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the -
Blog / MIT Life
Needles That was anticlimactic.
I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of -
Blog / Academics & Research
On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.
Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... mouse project, I've been working on a yeast two-hybrid screen. Basically -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
-grubber; work to maximize deep understanding. Ever since, "I focus on trying to ... training or another PE class every year, too. "I enjoy it," he says. "It ... right now is that efficiencies are low," Zinser says. "I'm one of those -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.
the topic. Having trouble attracting women? Here's what I find ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to ... speed-dating conversations. He can now predict the verdict for 80 per cent -
Blog / Academics & Research
Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation
Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason -
Blog / Academics & Research
Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)
like the best option for me. Prospective students, I hope this post gives ... temperature increase below 2°C. What Can You Do about Climate Change? It is ... also essential. In this post, I’d like to talk to you about one lifestyle -
Blog / Admissions
Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.
session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... the extent they can be determined -- are almost never academically ... health issues. I think some people assume that MIT must have a high -
Blog / Personal Travel
a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam
-ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6.033 report seem comprehensible. i look outside and see the same view i've seen ... : it's the mid-semester bubble rearing its ugly head. i want to succumb -
Blog / MIT Life
deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres
i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
(My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog
First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!
(To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to -
Blog / MIT Life
Time and change
Term's over. Almost. I've always felt that term wasn't truly over until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have -
Blog / MIT Life
Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."
to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT. This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on -
Blog / Events
Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…
activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers
Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was ... on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now
Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some ... exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I