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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... Lobby 7 on a Friday evening, seeing one of the graduate students in my lab ... swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the

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

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... data on the self-reported underwear colors of people who have emailed the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... that place a premium on diversity utilize a much broader definition of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  into a bit of a problem on Monday night. As I was cutting out the tines ... the hacksaw... somehow, slicing open my pinky as I came down on top of ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  efforts focus on a style of educational encounter which emphasizes the ... on each form. 6. Give the other EVALUATION OF APPLICANT form to a ... state, “Be reasonably specific on the allocation of time.”) Perhaps the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... after graduating and dumping all of it into clumsy stupid words on a page ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This Tech article came out hot on the heels of Lydia's blog post, Meltdown. In ... The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like ... mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my ... . For now, I still have lots of exciting work to do on Beaver

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... , wander around the comparative media studies office on the third floor of ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... group of people on a project with so many moving pieces (literally!), and ... , and the 8 LEDs on top. A big part of this class, beyond functionality

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... perspective on MIT; the different scenes, as well as the type of people I want ... finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... effect of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on the drought stress of Solanum ... /crazy/confusing sense of humor, depending on who you’re asking. Robby and I have been

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  somewhat predictable and depends on a complex set of factors mostly beyond my ... art, mason jar full of lemonade (or cold-brewed iced-tea, depending on ... install of Safari just for reading apps) Sublime Text (for taking notes on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more ... probably wouldn’t have picked up on as a child. Those of you who read the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018