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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are ... pronouns on Facebook to “they/them” regardless of your actual gender in order ... supporting the idea quietly on their own. Anyway, I just wanted to share

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... concrete basin. I have been on Dallas all day. My throat is dry and hollow. I ... . ______ Resources: Michelle Alexander on Transformative Change Self Care for People

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... .   (from Wikimedia) Colum McCann sat on a high chair in the light. He wore a ... of unbelievable. I feel the magic still. **** Bonus: what we saw on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  Christmas (for more on those, see 3). The sooner you submit your application ... 't let that stress you out on December 31st. Press the “Submit” button ... ribbons on graduation. You've heard of them, haven't you? Do the numbers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  experience the technology, hands on. Our goal is to make genetic engineering ... about Amino on the Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone Indie ... makers in our admissions process, and has a general love of hands-on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  and dry. Yay. So on Saturday, to prepare for the worst, I went winter ... new and scary. On the flip side, the transition to the fall climate has ... starting to change colors, and the Boston and Cambridge skyline looks on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... got even better! (more on that later) I wonder if I am a different ... befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  Oregon's Yamhill Valley. More on this later. I had no internet, no cell ... in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I ... . On Writing by Stephen King. A birthday gift. This book went down like

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  . One that I've been working on is lovingly called pybot, a terrible bot ... 't gotten the chance to get involved with it at MIT yet. I'm on the Origa ... that song I'm working on, and release that EP of IDM tracks. Seriously

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  they support makers on their campuses. MIT's contribution includes a ... was to canvass everything MIT does to support makers on its campus, from ... , being "surrounded by people working on interesting projects makes me want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Interstellar Hello everyone, sorry for the three week delay on the latest list ... of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm ... eye on since the Google Glass, Pebble, Galaxy Gear and Fit Bit all grew

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  Emirates hung their flags next to each other on the wall.   Meanwhile ... competition is a "tech inspection," where the airplane is inspected on the ... on takeoff. We were nineteenth in line, and as team 17 was called our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  extra classes. On the way back, my flight was delayed again-- but don ... taking on more classes and experiences, and didn't regret a single moment ... 's motto. In this way, it was good that I couldn't entirely rely on English

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  it actually said was this: You are on this list because you are ... something similar on some of you. So, that's what happened. I've fixed the ... . I've been on that side and I know how it feels. And if you've now felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us ... ” and wear it around my neck along with a reporter’s hat. Oh well, on to ... things keep on coming.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  an added bonus, I found out that the event would be put on by the ... at the beauty of the message boards on campus? Honestly. There’s just ... the signed poster on my wall right now and it looks pretty lonely. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... entire grade) and get a final grade based on that, or choose to get an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  't. It shows you the shape of our decisions, not the basis on which they ... on the wait list 708 Wait list Applicants accepting a place on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a ... character.") The lights were on, music was playing, and a ticket table was set ... continued on our way. I mention all this because we met him again later - stay

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas ... strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure what it is, but it definitely says Bad Ideas on it and it advertises Bad

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013