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  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool big events throughout the year like a Intercollegiate Valentines Day Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... usually enter by submitting a resume. I didn’t have a resume, and when I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  feel increasingly like I need a really good post about all the cool ... . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester ... talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she ...  as part of a science quiz series. I watched it and found equal parts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... be but life becomes a 6’ 7” professional basketball player towering

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i wasn't too thrilled about, i've finally reached the promised land, a ... .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... significant that these guidelines have been released, given that they endorse a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn't have a college degree or a fancy job title, Matt Damon still had a story ... love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  if you have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications ... review of software and related documents on which you work. As a manager, do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story ... some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a ... hackers have been busy this semester! Here's a timeline of Fall 2015 Hacks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... current (and future) MIT students, I suspect, I loved the BTTF movies as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I'm teaching again, this time a ... have been basically thinking about this course as a 'social history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... , including: We are a non-binding, non-restrictive Early Action school ... . Applying for financial aid will not negatively affect a student's admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day ... Admitted Student Gathering with a nonexistent limited edition 1930 brass rat ... .   *static----we're back!* MIT Hacks are a staple of MIT culture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  Like Anna H. ‘14 blogged a while ago, as my time has gotten more ... from a distance. Here’s one of the stories my parents tell about the person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... fascinating. Don’t miss it. Connect. Venture one conversation with a commonly ... what really mattered. Once I knew, the question no longer presented a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014