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  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  this idea to Charlotte, she actually started jumping up and down and did ... . Danny was working on 18.03 and looked up confused by all the hand gestures ... turn our facebook messenger chat into a text file. We looked this up and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  bodies of children would be curled up with mine at night. Ruth’s sister Asede on the one side, and Surafiel inevitably ending up somewhere on the ... other relatives, and laughter, and she looks up at me, with a trademark

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... told me the wisdom behind making rush burgers, up to the perfect amount ... accompany the courtyard fun, which was nice to wake up to. Although the CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the ... to this place. I went on a UROP tour (Sign up early, they’re super cool ... suitcase wasn’t big enough, and you end up having to wear 4 layers of clothes

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  something up on the day of the test. I thought I was going to forget a ... have less “free-time”, but I made up for a lot of the busy time during ... good feeling about April, and all my weekends coming up have something

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... in Barcelona, and then Essen, Germany, and time to rest up physically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  placement in the hall, the dining halls are back up and running, and the ... first day back started. I got up way too early, ate way too much ... twenty minutes because I showed up too early. Pretty soon, I grabbed a seat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ’ve also found that I like switching up where I work, sometimes a corner desk ... mom on my day or finish up a HASS reading. so foreign ah R E S T A U R ... waking up at 4 a.m. to stumble into the boathouse for morning rowing

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... registration drive held in the days leading up to the Massachusetts registration ... other generous MIT faculty, we set up a table in Lobby 10 expecting to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  ponder how you ended up here, the intricacies of aerospace engineering, but mostly, uh, how did I end up here?!?!?! Anyways, unlike yesterday, I am ... the view you get when lying down, looking straight up. Can you find MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... . They also put up a bunch of pictures of Iron Man and said you can fly ... , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  and watched fireworks from the windows on the top floor, going up from ... bakes often and leaves the cake, or brownies, or cornbread, up for grabs ... up and sending each other snapchats of food and scenery. so i'm at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the ... anyway...” Sometimes I’m about to start just as another blagger puts up a ... clears up in a week or so) it’s the energy all of that takes out of you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... the Media Lab. Up until recently, it was MIT’s oldest undergraduate ... were? I even ended up living in her suite for REX week (affectionately

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... bioengineering, but I did not want to give up on writing. This mission has been

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome comes up when everyone around you ... start-up. As part of my Course 15 (management) curriculum, I get to take

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  vision, and in that context...I had a hard time being picked up [by facial recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... called the Perpetual Line-Up, which talks about unregulated use of facial

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  the headset. When I pulled up a 3D graph of stock market forecasts, I ... ) overlaid on the real-world, popping up and "standing" on whatever surface the ... camera over it and a digital gecko popped up to life on his wrist. His

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  ? Intersectionality is the idea that a person's identity is made up of the sum of ... identities did you share the most with people when you were growing up?" I ... could benefit from learning about why many people are so "hung up" on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016