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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... ’s call it a tail—yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  you got in, it’s because you can handle it, and because you’re the kind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and that just by integrating into a floor culture, they can gain a lifelong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... hand. Alright, if I can’t [annotation note="At reasonable prices and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  correlation doesn’t imply causation, a controlled experiment can. As in, one can ... overtly or not - can have very real consequences for their test performance ... really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern ... modern fire code, ADA[?], etc. and that would open too many cans of worms ... residents can do to the space, giving rise to murals and loft beds and crazy

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  any number of other qualities and characteristics. While one's race can ... diversity than what can be captured or satisfied by a simple check box. The

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... extreme lengths to avoid embarrassing themselves - and you can achieve great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... possible for competitive college admissions. Sometimes, you really can have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... , of course, if they think you can read it). And, the sidewalks are lined

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... largely about showing high school students that MIT can be a great athletic

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  the rings so that we can see an image of the Boston skyline when we look ... so that we see an image of the MIT skyline. This is so that we can look

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... okay to keep making the same mistakes. You can't just tell yourself "Oh

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . sheet metal can be cut and textured into leaves (or cacti, or, as a grad ... can see in my drawings, the dragon hilt is quite sculptural, but also ... iron look like play dough. You can squash a workpiece in seconds when it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  hair dye can be discussion starters, and being openly and loudly queer can help show others that they, too, are free to be themselves around you and around others. Fighting for the right to be yourself can help

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... stuff you can't work on aside from letting it fade from the collective ... whatever career you choose, your success isn't measured by how much you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . “He’s alright Billy, he can stay. Give the lad ‘is key!” My room looks ... ’s because not many people can do it!” “No, it’s not that hard. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015