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  G(e)e^ks

  

  of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are ... family. The fact that my initials spell "red" and red is the color of blood

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I ... . Most people I know in doubles use bunk beds because it saves space. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... same Tangerine Sorbet - By far, my favorite new flavor. I'm of the ... was right. In other news, one of my favorite flavors from Coldstone

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  ) * The Times They Are a'Changin' (Bob Dylan) * If I Had My Way (Peter, Paul ... Youth - "Tunic" * Camper Van Beethoven - "Tina" * Pixies - "Where's My ... Jarrett - "My Wild Irish Rose" * Tom Waits - "Closing Time" Harold Abelson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  handful of my friends felt like signing up for [annotation note="more on ... that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother experience. I easily put 20 hours/week into 6.115 labs, structuring my eating

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of ... was hanging out with one of my friends at school. we walked through an

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... words are used. I trace a lot of the influence in my writing from spoken

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  It's been one hundred twenty-five days since my dad pulled up outside my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags into the way-too-big trailer, leaving nothing behind but my empty room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... is also very important.” -Aisha Wang “My PSET or exam was always on the back of my mind, and that really prevented me from really enjoying

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team. More about that experience here. After I left, my team stepped up their ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... long strip of paper. If I took a pair of scissors to my data and tried to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... 't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses ... offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... of a variety of different subjects. Because of the small size of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Gann '00 for correcting my memory less than 20 minutes after I posted this ... only a freshman. Now, granted, it was my mountain bike, which is way too ... % of the dishes contain shrimp, which makes me throw up a little in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  technical prowess. This year is the largest technical jump we’ve made in my ... cross-functional team. What I’ve learned as an engineer My advice boils ... must first be a good engineer. During my time at MIT, especially in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If ... tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... tell I listened but my pessimistic brain don't help, ooh If I could put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and ... loaded my plate, turned around, and was briefly catapulted into the ... -making opportunity" kind of way. So, I pushed down my fear and approached the table of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  be to say that there didn't use to be. There used to be (from my ... and 43rd. Reasonably, I cannot walk through walls to get to my ... obvious when it isn't. And this, is a problem. One my class tries to remedy

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down ... class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022