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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  she told me I was too old to play with them. :( Joined the school play Basically I’m horrible at any skill potentially related to being in a play (speaking loudly, memorizing lines, not being terrified of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  this single tweet caused: The video shows Kyle M. '20 eating an onion like an apple. The video is truly harrowing, but you can watch it on ... . —anonymous getting a free lifetime of great things. —Robo-CJ cooking an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  . For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6-3 ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard ... prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Pitch Portal, CoFoundersLab, Fundsup, 3linepitch. What makes this ... than I give to, like how I go to SaveTFP and get free food, or how I ... dinner. I've never done anything in exchange for all their free food, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  , screaming at like 3 am, etc. Along the Charles facing Boston: The most ... amazing aesthetics: this one's very specific but man, I love that bathroom ... the good times. Media Lab 3rd floor atrium: I LOVE this place. The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  heard myself pull in air. It was Jane Lynch, the actress who plays Sue ... complaining and hunting down unhealthy free food. I can deal with it." And then

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... it right. Best of luck to you all, and please feel free to email me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  . I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite board games. We can play Splendor or Carcassonne, and if we get enough people we could play Modern Art ... you to some of my favorite board games. We can play Gizmos or Modern Art

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  comprehensively insane.” That afternoon I went to S^3. “I think I’ve gone insane,” I said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... email: Now playing: "O Valencia!" by The Decemberists I haven't really ... week, other than a general sense of terror-excitement. Now playing: "The

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3 ... , having learned his lesson, he promptly ordered another 3DRobotics IRIS

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’d like to cry with me, feel free - I’ll bring tissues. The East Campus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against ... out behind all of the video cameras in the roped off area. He got some ... played the same classical music they'd been playing for the last two hours

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  procrastination approach to large writing projects. You only lose 1/3 of a grade per ... *. If you have any questions about MIT, feel free to contact me at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  this word today"]shucking[/annotation] but who cares. Fig 3. Clockwise ... 'orange. Made with one of my favorite kitchen tools: the sous vide machine (along ... with any seller of sous vide machines."]decently tender cut

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you ... , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it ... wondering!!) I took 6.867, one of MIT’s machine learning classes, last ... out of that situation immediately.” 3. My friends are amazing! And

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability ... a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005