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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  NAVIGATION The Class Lab 1 Lab 2 Design Exercises Weather Smart Lamp The Clapper Final Project Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 The Final Product final

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... start a novel with the lines, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.” And you ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , hence why the next big change didn‘t occur until more than a decade later ... .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s, women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some juicy new details about the application experience. Here goes: Prologue

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Partitioning the Boston-Cambridge line, the Charles River passes ... ="an important distinction is between the greater boston area and boston the city itself. the greater boston area includes cambridge, lowell, quincy, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who’ve lived in this room. many of the things in this room have been passed down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In either case, it generally doesn't matter if it's true, because the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... was saddened as I walked down the Infinite Corridor, had lunch in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023