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#NoBanNoWall
the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly -
Blog / MIT Life
I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?
6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon
of these things, MIT has managed to become one more thing: my home away ... As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it -
Blog / How to Food
making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /
too pour a few cups of flour into big bowl add one cup hot water knead add another cup of hot water knead some more keep kneading ... ): obtain mushrooms of various types. shiitake is pretty good. obtain -
Blog / Events
Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!
Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations ... hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT ... held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and -
Blog / MIT Life
I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?
So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of -
Blog / About Decisions
wait for it for those awaiting decisions
, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores/GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the -
Blog / How to Human
the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?
, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In many ways on average-posting
deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students
tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working -
Blog / Admissions
Reaffirming our support for international students
than 40% of our faculty, 40% of our graduate students and 10% of our ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of ... students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...
at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.
The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.
reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... each floor, along with one graduate student (called a "GRT," for graduate -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…
Yesterday marked the beginning of classes, but today marked my first day of real classes. That's because I got uber lucky and only have one ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was -
Blog / About Decisions
Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience
A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ‘technical’ than other schools, especially those less certain about what they -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult
'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever
+ snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?
? Basically if you took a sizable amount of AP exams in high school (or courses ... , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... 't you guys a tech school? What are you doing here?!" Ahem. Engineers can