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  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  went back and forth for a bit trying to decide whether our bebe should be a boy or a girl. we ended up choosing neither and just them androgynous and/or nonbinary. Here are our initial sketches (left: Audrey

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  -defense discretionary spending (“our stuff!”) and the nature of its shrinking. The Budget ... that our 30-minute scheduled meeting might end up lasting two minutes and ... , and ask the staffer about him or herself. Tailor your message

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  meticulously planning GCal events or serendipity. Our conversations tend to ... sorts, both in the present and the future. We talk about our immediate post grad plans and longer term goals and loftiest dreams. Our

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  made an executive decision to continue our movie marathon and watch HSM2 ... to live out our acapella dreams. But instead of being reasonable and ... amount of stress and work that followed the breakup or if there's some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... up until 3 or 4am on a regular basis; you check, and sure enough, the ... group until we find one of our resident chemistry majors, and ask whatever

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , grab our gear and head out the door. We drive to our home turf, Ragged ... morning, strapped our skis to our backs, and hiked several hours up Mount ... LED strips, and a massive battery, and spent much of our free time that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  . And now, onto the non-meteorological information (say it, don't spray it?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of ... collection, not gonna lie. Obviously, we didn't do our research, since we each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  . Here's our boat, the sqrt(2*kinetic energy/mass) -- or, as some like to ... Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  scenario. And then right of the bat, we faced our first contender: the ... world. And people are half that equation. Last Friday, I led my wonderful ... from different living groups, activities, walks of life. Our “Tiger Team

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  anything isn’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and Petey or I ... Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night ... admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  . Before Matt, Ben, and I gave our presentation last week we went for lunch ... all sat down at the table and chatted happily, waiting for our hot dogs ... army, and when they're on shift that's fine. When a fire fighter cooks

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  on the shore and NOT run away. So, almost every night with our mom, we ... our mom in Russian (followed by the transliteration and translation ... ...... And then on July 27th: Even before we got on the sand, our mom, with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  ridiculously proud of our school, of the communities, cultures, and student groups we have helped create - and CPW is our chance to show those off to ... students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... . Specifically discussion about the reasons we picked that date and time. My favorite observation comes from optimistic-mom: 1217 and 2011 are prime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  felt the weight of all of our work, how much time and effort had been ... the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve lived

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  will just knock on my door (or not) and sit on my beanbag and hang out ... ="99341" /] our room is decorated with posters and trinkets we've each gathered over ... and nunu make our room feel like home. Ria: B1 is my home!! Every party

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  came from our scraps and ironically, the team working on "constrained ... the lab to inspect our work and give us last-minute feedback. In the ... parties became a regular part of our team meetings, and we reguarly cranked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  product; and 64% reported they made things in their dorms or independent ... , useful, ingenious and/or interesting things. As we concluded: It is ... making. If, like me, you're the sort of person who likes making things, and/or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  ) reading list: A mix of our own writing, our peers' writing, and published ... beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an ... , Dickens, the Brontës, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad. The class alternates between

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices ... projects and priorities, or tampered with the integrity of their need ... doubled over that time, and many of our peer institutions have seen a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011