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Finals away from finals
Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes. Hardware for...
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The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT
livestream of the graduation ceremonies Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2,988...
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How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community
This post is dedicated to 2021s who aren’t sure if they can survive in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as well. First, an important note: you are required to purchase a...
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last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how...
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Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps
The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our bloggers are home, with some recently graduated, or have just begun work and UROPs. Meanwhile, the admissions team has been attending...
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East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents
East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who settles in EC gets flaming pink hair, nor are we all engaged...
View ArticleBe A Blogger 2017!
It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist illuminati responsible for the common core 2) I'm trying to learn...
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Summer in Boston
To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get...
View ArticleWork Hard, Play Hard
Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on...
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The Gender Problem
In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school activity that had drastically more boys than girls. There was no...
View ArticleThree Tales of Junior Year
The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of longing for lessons past” way. I discovered 5 classes like that...
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HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post)
I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets,...
View Articlesenior house / pilot 2021 / senior house
I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I...
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On the Scattering of Senior House
There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what...
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The Room Where It Happens
For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19, and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the Senior Haus co-president, until suddenly, there was no...
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sabrina, joon, and abby posted recently about the circumstances surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's...
View ArticleMIT: Progressions
Earlier today, I got an email from Kenny Friedman '17, who took my course last fall. Long story short: while researching some old media appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the...
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Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab
Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize and celebrate responsible disobedience: The Media Lab Disobedience Award seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical...
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places at mit
MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4 should be next to...
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Reasons I haven’t blagged…
Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag. But of...
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