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  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  followers. 3.) Trace the outline of your hand (preferably the hand you do not ... .) Repeat. Or not. Whatever. 6.) Decorate! Observe! This is us making hand ... we do not have a dining hall. By the end of this entry you won't want a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... outside of MIT because not only are the tickets for the events often ... upperclassman. Not to mention the fact that through FASAP, I’ve met some

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior ... semester. The sun is shining, basketball season is right around the corner ... Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and ... creating the best possible education, which is based on their innovative and ... As the largest department at MIT, Electrical Engineering &
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... everyone is sitting in a small booth, inches away from the rotating cylinder

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... 't know: that the executive at ABC who greenlighted to show is an MIT alumna. Andrea Wong '88 is the Executive Vice President for Alternative Programming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest ... -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story ... Thrones marathon right after the 8.01 exam! not the best idea ever

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  much more than that. “The amount of space between two points” was not ... impossible to not forget.   Distance is learning not to say goodbye ... ”, Grab your bags and try not to look back.   Distance is to have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music ... Course 24 - Linguistics and Philosophy is on the top two floors of Stata

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  . Capturing the avatar is the only way that Zuko, who has been disgraced and ... way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep, fundamental level. Just as the body fights infection, Zuko is engaged in a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not quite the same. it's experienced in shorter, more intense bursts, and is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  gloomy winter. The boats, (photo taken by Joanie W. '14) And this is ... next project is a hat. Round needles for the win). Our very long list ... flexibility in the dates you can go, which may not happen again for awhile. For

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... No, not another Erika Ebbel entry. She's way too classy. Instead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  students. Note, however, that BB&B is not the easiest destination from ... nearest Target is quite far, and the MIT Coop is not the go-to store for ... : “Technically, the glass is always full.” -- a casual wardrobe. This is optional

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some ... of the world. The answer is that I'm also an (er, the school's sole

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You ... such as Black Lives Matter is one of the most important developments of my life time. These moments in my life are not extreme in the sense

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group ... MIT this year. Also, in Group E, we won't count the USA (and not just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006