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• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... trends reveal an uptick in searches for Blahaj starting from early 2020 ... + people to explore their identities, especially for those living in homes or

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... if you live in a city for 18 months. Anyway, moving out ended up taking ... upwards of 400 points in their 25-minute games (we played for longer than

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  for the three million Sudanese civilians who now live in refugee camps ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  wasn't possible for me to get an A in this class, so I left it on PNR to ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  would be a great place for college all the way back in eighth grade when I ... for continuously pushing me in the right direction.   The lab ... For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... Sister, Sister Movies: Alex Haley’s ROOTS For Colored Girls Booty Call ... Company One Troupe (live at the Boston Center for the Arts) Performances

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Chinese bakery and suddenly felt homesick, not for my own home in St. Louis ... imposingly Colonial front side of Quincy Market. I considered stopping in for ... and got one for free, inexplicably. Will is a logical person who sits in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... went for a walk. Freshman year I made a big deal about having a final on ... .09 in the afternoon, then 8.07 all night and in the morning. I answered my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  (incorrect) arrows for a few J-pop-filled hours in the Random Hall basement ... airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th ... and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  (nicknamed "strobe alley") now stands as an invaluable resource for students, and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... space where I'd fit in could be as big or small as I had energy for. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... for a month because I got so caught up in my tryharding that I couldn

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... creating things in the mechanical realm, as a choice of course 2 for my major ... enjoyed making things; that hasn't changed at all. This summer, for example

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009