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  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT ... only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... : The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August, and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... ‘safe’. But on the other hand, maybe I should really work on building a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... hacksaw, a bandsaw, a scroll saw, and a lathe, and perform minor repairs on ... lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... my new favorite spot to study for future years. Applying randomly to a ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale ... -mo. Moments like sitting on a boat next to a friend and staring out into the ... just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... 's Guide to Love and Murder A Very Sports-y Sunday || VEDA #12  – people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  going to be alright. A few days later, I had a nice OX lined up on my ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024