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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best 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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve roughly a dozen rounds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... stitch using a kit from Barnes and Noble. Nine years later and I’m still ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... freshman Orientation, each incoming MIT student gets a copy of some version ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects, including Gus the Bus, a 1967 Volkswagen bus that Spencer spent five years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago, I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry, painting, dancing) be valued as much as a techie passion (like building stuff ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004