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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  realizing what a waste of time it is to overthink the features of the bodies ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... . I could tell it meant something to the die-hard fans, but I was ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that ... -gatherer predecessors? I think it’s important to acknowledge the very rightful discomfort

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  it easier to build roads. So, starting “from scratch” is especially ... necessary for this well, as it is much deeper than shallow backyard wells. But as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... . It still is. Though it was mainly written for high schoolers, I found ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH ... the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room ... , so there's nobody to talk with. 1:45 PM. The autoclave is finally done ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk about it, or just be silent. Either is fine. Me: *silent* *ten minutes ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself ... least I noticed it today) I'm probably going to be more hesistant about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is because it is big, capable of housing 450 students, and as I learned from ... our minds when we think of Batman?” It extends to other areas of life--is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’t look competitive anymore, but it was because I knew I was going to lose ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... understand now what it means to love myself. It looks like giving myself time

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  , stitched, sold, and gifted and I want to share it all but I think this is ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... lot of effort sometimes though! It means you mostly have to interact

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... -end is everything else; full-stack refers to both front-end and back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006