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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... exhibit until this summer, and the hack will stay in play until then. We ... all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  will be able to contribute my efforts to the field of public health ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by ... some of the courses here can be), and that's perfectly fine! So don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  elevation that the room had to be oxygenated; I asked X-ray telescopes in low ... to some extent -- you’ll be influenced by circumstance and will make ... matter what -- there will be aspects you’re naturally good at and aspects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  convince you that the Hunt, like all puzzlehunts, can be studied and thought ... , and for being the friends I made along the way. I love you all ... 1997 Hunt was the first one with a [annotation note='It could be called a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visualized a banana, and I probably never will. I made the connection between ... church over the span of a week. To be a full-fledged member of the church, there were two important requirements: the first was to be baptized, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  shift in tone, this "code switching" as you will be told, as a regional ... of the struggles I had in leaving home and being on my own for the ... still being shaped by Atlanta, both the good and the bad. But that being

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  eventually, eventually, we will sleep. I think the semester can be ... person I want to be and the people I've been over the past two years; I ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... for being bold, taking charge, and leading the way. Utilize these ... advice. However, the best way to navigate the college process is to be open

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... mix the DNAs together with Lipofectamine, which will scrunch them into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  and the people you are with. Take chances; be bold enough to put your ... succeeding, since the positive impact of your successes will eventually far ... health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested ... hallway. Other times it might be big, like a huge Scrabble board on the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  year I would also be an active member of LuCHA, the Latin Students' Union ... will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what ... my journey throughout the years. Though I will (mostly) end my career

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  , the blogs were not nearly the beast you see them to be now. I was ... appreciated the most about being a blogger was the ability to be open about ... be brave/bored enough to go back and read the whole mess. Being a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ask the seniors I knew what they were taking, and would often be ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  three points, and then I will bend them to point in the fork-hat direction ... of Vectors). After that, I will touch up the handle and clean the whole ... the summer (there were other cool ones (pun!), but I wasn't willing to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  that make up the daily grind of the class, the insights will be lost on ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... your advisor and sign off on the classes you'll be taking for the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  discretion.[/caption] Now the rest of this post will contain detailed ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... , removed my tools from the makeshift mat, and then wrapped everything to be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... row in the same direction. People and projects can be grouped into

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  anytime (he or she will often not be there) help conversations and guidance ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... be a lot more of the same. A lot of “I don’t feel left out exactly, but

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019