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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  would get to work "if it rained". "So, what if it rained?", they said ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I ... organizers invited me back to judge again this year, along with Professor John

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... and planned for whenever i work up the courage to get it...the list goes ... directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more ... were selected to "become the next generation of tech visionaries ... was one of only two women to win (and the only American woman); the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater ... masks we had to wear during Sleep No More (which is by far the ... like to collect things that we are too attached to to throw away. We put

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I mean: get more sleep, be more productive, win at life. Huzzah! With this ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... -bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  interested in us as students, and I want to get to know them more throughout ... by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most ... spend too much time (over)thinking these questions or your answers to them ... . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  the browser to finally submit your EA application. Rest assured there ... that last minute work on your halloween costume, or...... I can tell you aren't listening. You're already thinking about re-reading your essays

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Victoria’s Secret Update UPDATE!

  

  Ok, quick update to my post immediately below this one. Read that one before this one, otherwise this one won't be nearly as exciting. Ok, so, now when you go to vote for MIT you get this lovely screen: YAY!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 2, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed ... ’ll get some work done tonight. But first I want to record the highlights of ... enough to get to Killarney early. Alas.  I was stressed for parts of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  took our class to Boxaroo (an escape room in Boston founded by MIT Alums ... from #1) 22) Receipts from when Danny went to get his brass rat resized ... the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  to songs I know by heart, and much more often, music that I’ve never ... cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... that I missed dancing contemporary a lot! I love getting to be dramatic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024