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Blog / Academics & Research
Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!
I’m taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets, so I decided to compensate by only taking… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year
It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT is home and… -
Blog / Life after MIT
This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school
“Einen Faden in die Hand nehmen, der in jedem Fall, unter allen Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To take in one’s hand a… -
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“Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan
approximately ⅓ a year, while, in real life, the back rows smelled the perfume -
Blog / Extracurriculars
The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…
Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be math but… -
Blog / Challenges
Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)
had fallen :( So I went on with my life. Sort of. It was super -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days
realize I don't know what I want to do in life. Great. So I start filling -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Week 1 ...of Year 2.
Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher
or the life and works of Theodor Nelson. So in spite of working 40 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Being an Intern (And being an adult)
on some level, which feels a bit strange. I guess, for most of my life ... ’m obsessed with reflecting on life, but it kept striking me how, just a year ... areas of life. To be positive, everything has to be kept in a certain -
Blog / Academics & Research
Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices
made enough poor life choices. To accommodate my increasingly nocturnal -
Blog / MIT Life
My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....
met with a counselor to talk about life. It's a nice break to go there ... really cool class that lets us look at the life cycle of materials and the -
Blog / How to Human
Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans
never be too safe), it leapt to life and shouted, startling us and -
Blog / Challenges
For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break
, the fantastic Laura Maxim, and talked to her about life. She was super -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…
blinking. Long time city dwellers enjoy playing a real-life version of -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!
I’ve mentioned in prior posts that my hall, Tetazoo, in East Campus is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures. We traditionally have a camping trip each… -
Blog / Athletics
New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.
Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the things I… -
Blog / How to Food
The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.
before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm. A few people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... fairly valuable life skill. Motivated yet? *there's an Any 14 meal plan -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.
read. That "aw, how sweet. a new chapter in your life has begun" look