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• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  MIT. My summer job doesn't start until June 23rd, though, so I've been ... something I swore up and down I wouldn't do this year: I joined the MIT Class ... seminar. (Holy crap, I'm a senior. When did that happen?! Wasn't I posting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity: "Today, 3/3/09, is square root day, which only occurs nine times each

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get pizza and pastries the other night. I didn't feel like writing about it so I decided to just film it instead. I present to you, what it would

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9 ... Junior-Senior P/D/F, and they can't satisfy any Institute or departmental ... me broke. Also, falling down multiple flights of stairs probably didn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Conversation (always) goes like this: I haven't visited China since I started ... do? "What are you going to do after school?" I don't know, honestly ... you think you'll never be ready to leave and then suddenly you just can't

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... around Thursday night (“I HAVE 3 PSETS DUE TOMORROW THAT I HAVEN’T STARTED ... . I haven’t slept in 2 days. So last night, I had 3 Monsters, and I just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... term I don't know if I've even told you guys about the project we ... next week! Yeah, it's a wall. Don't start with me- you have NO IDEA the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to dispel those rumors: I don't like physics. Lucky for me, there are all

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Repertory Theatre (aka A.R.T.) in Harvard Square for the play/musical The ... advisors. As always, we met at the T—the starting point of our treks across Boston. Ah, the T—our source of transportation and much agony

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship ... little fuzzy on the details." ***** "I wasn't alone. I was with my computer ... like he was a mathemagician." ***** "But... you don't understand... it

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not that we hate everything or aren't happy people, it's just that after freshman year everything just seems much more difficult. Freshman year isn't

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  them (though that didn't really count because it was P/NR and I got an ... notes, front and back (it really doesn't help as much as you think it ... indeterminate structures and projection! I really don't like this stuff, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on ... production process isn't as easy as answering a few disarming questions and ... worry that all the components won't come together (and they usually don't

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  Have you all had your high school proms yet? If your school doesn’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing ... - you'll be classifying it later. --Why don't you come over later so you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , there's the among other things. But those alone doesn't do this ... by accident, or they weren't even on the schedule, or I just happened ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  : I don't know, I didn't listen." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the ... , like Arthur Dent, don't listen - but I guess he turned out mostly okay in ... ...it's called CPW. And it will be amazing. Gather close, pre-frosh. Don't let the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  , it's convenient - and at MIT, everyone checks it. They don't call this ... in Cambridge and doesn't actually live there, I'm sort of detached from ... general, aren't very fond of The Boston Globe. Mainly because they don't

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  Well, March 15th was an experience, wasn't it? I know what you ... all aren't just names and random comments, you're people who I wanted to ... Tanmay. I gasped when I found out that De Petagma Saru and Sh1fty hadn't

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't ... this generally doesn't make a difference, because procrastination doesn't ... set scores won't count for more than 10% of your final grade. The vast

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008