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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... identities at MIT, where they felt welcome, none have been "out" on the blogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  this tbh"]too much freshman time on P/NR.[/annotation] Made the week ... from sour cream and mushrooms. My personal take on the classic Russian dish. A note on smoking meat: please open the windows, close the kitchen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... :   Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... Boston Public Garden. Fog on the Charles River at sunrise. Crossing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... the Great Dome, this past Monday night on the left and this past summer on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... movie that caught my attention: Hold on, what was that? On his ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... ’t, you smear the colonies on the cloth and the petri dishes into their ... the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... DRobotics IRIS+ Drone, which joined our family early last spring. On its first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it”). Five are on the drop, drilling: two on the slide itself, two behind it ... is the steepest wooden rollercoaster on Earth: it starts with an eight

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... when even i feel like i'm on a roll and energetic and productive ... , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015