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  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ? But apparently a website that failed to inspire respect for an ... ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... , enthusiasm is good," said Aaron. "But you need to find internal enthusiasm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  build apps with them." Confusion persisted. "I fail to understand your ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  " is that it fails to present a comprehensive[annotation note ... part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... .021 As many of you know, I failed/dropped out of 8.02, Physics E&M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  problem is way off. Despite the complexity, it fails to provide a reasonable ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... contains itself, which would have caused mild distress to Bertrand Russell. 3 ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  adulting-oriented questions, because that's what I expected to learn, coming into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  pursued their dreams and failed? Wouldn’t it be selfish of me to give up the ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... think it's important to recognize this. There are some truly beautiful entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman’s a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of ... year seems to go by now compared to how it felt in high school has made

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  to boldly go…

  

  our showerhead broke     happy last week of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  I'm taking [annotation note="Introduction to Education"]CMS.586 ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... going (back) to public school I went to an evangelical Christian school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... works out that way. Instead, you have one more day to procrastinate and have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  I have to think about the real world.  Things like where to live, what to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011