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  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we still allowed to use the -blr suffix?"]studyblr[/annotation] levels of organization:   Time to stock up on Staedtler Muji Sharpie pens of an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days ... of good friends ranging from the classes of '93 to '07 (Friday night ... come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so ... her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  work on stretching our legs Balance! (Honestly, this is so hard to do ... successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the ... based on sets of symptoms rather than underlying biology, a messy way to ... opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... of brief defiance against social constructions, I decided to embrace my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... to bake cookies. We made something on the order of 100 cookies, I think ... Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... don't remember or it was fairly mundane...or I don't want to share it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... then asked to log into Facebook. Afterward, we spent most of our lunch ... . But pictures of interesting things on computer screens make for terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems ... .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry ... Roll) Awards linked to a class or department (e.g. History department

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  of entry posting (I'm still trying to blog every other day, which is ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1 ... the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  upwards of 2750 entries (written over a little more than four years!), which translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  one type of plane, the 737, and on each 737 there is one seat to rule ... . Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.   ... Row SSS- Super Special Seat (To be explained later, there is only 1 on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th ... Garfield has Spider-Man on lock. How to Win Friends and Influence People A ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  that all of their pizza is bad. Just remind me to order the mushroom and ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025