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  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  application. If that’s your case, go for it! These can be powerful and helpful ... change throughout the application cycle, just a like a student’s gender ... how much gendered language they use/see for the rest of the day – it’s

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience ... than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting impact on me, it’s science fair. This weekend, approximately 1800 high

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in ... opportunities. The 2 WGS (Women’s and Gender Studies, within Course 21) courses I ... Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital and the other at the Veterans

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  the world’s greenhouse gases. [editor's note: this number was updated ... production are likely to account for about half of the world’s available ... the U.S. comes from farms. One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  . Between the two of us, Rob and me, we know a fair number of Santa Feans. It’s ... the street at night if there’s a man nearby who might be following me. I ... like a woman’s. But in daylight, I talk to strangers. Rob was a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  your way home from Boston Logan, it’s free. I Instagrammed the trip back ... station closest to MIT’s campus, and Central, the station closest to Random ... your train’s progress as it makes its way to MIT (Kendall and Central

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  really important. It’s what keeps you going through hell weeks, what keeps ... gifted person in the world will at some point cross a threshold where it’s ... more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It’s about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . (You guys, my hands don’t just hang there awkwardly anymore!) So, here’s ... the rest of campus sees it. It’s about how the cast can empower each other and how we can carry that empowerment across campus, and there’s a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  Henley Women’s Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England. Although we didn ... start MIT’s chapter of Engineers without Borders with Helen D. ’12. The ... mentors to complete our chapter’s first assessment trip. While in Uganda, we

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  island’s beautiful environment, Jurassic Park was filmed on Kauai. Pirates ... , it’s 41 years old. Great find on Craig’s list.), and I was so intent on ... hearties, -sean P.S. – Pirates Trump Ninjas, Yo Ho! Finally, in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  This blog is to all the '14's, '15s, '16s+ who are scared after watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... that you risk losing your own. (*cinnabar = HgS crystal that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  . Highs in the 60s, to the 40s, then back up to 70 and humid even as late as 9pm, falling the next day to the mid 40s again. Sometimes it's 10 ... 70s and lows in the 40s all week. Anyways, I'm not complaining, not yet

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  is the Great Dome. Its head-on view is inspired by the original 1930s ... and placement are the same as the original 1930s ring." I loved the dome ... 'MIT' below the seal is stylized to mimic the 1930s ring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  EDGE/x is: it’s a two-year academic support program run by the Office of ... lead singer of The Smiths. It’s something that my friends from home have ... and Fabián’s impressed reactions to me singing along to the chorus of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  co-chair!!(also helloo '26s 👀) Hello! I’m Nora and I’m from ... Unlikely Hero.” My friend sent this, and it’s a bunch of Emperor penguin ... of a poem than a song. it’s called “Dasht-e-Tanhai" (I just got exposed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to [annotation note="hi y’all"]newly admitted 2026s ... I see on reddit — there’s this sense that people want to know all of ... over life. This post is a bit tricky to write because it’s actually

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  is because I’m currently in MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT ... . To make a sphere, it’s much easier to use a semicircle and revolve it ... degrees. But thanks to my Subteam lead’s help, I was able to learn this, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone ... was a Monday puzzle and one of the clues was “MIT’s business school ... challenging and that in itself is worth celebrating. So here’s to new hobbies

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... impact. Let’s start with creativity. Because my concentration within ... an amorphous problem that you are tasked with solving. It’s up to you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , they all said that’s a really good question! and not one of them answered ... ."][/annotation] It’s been a bit over a year since that spring. Now, I have an anecdote ... a project to count salmon. Here’s the idea. Salmon spawn in rivers and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024