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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  amount of joy and relief after the Obergefell decision in 2015. At the time ... , however, the situation was obvious. I was bi, or, at the very least, out of ... school, about half of my friend group was out as queer. That was neat, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  lettuce at many of the major grocery stores in the area. At Whole Foods, a package of Little Leaf lettuce is $3.99; at Market Basket, $2.99; and at ... what was once a desert. Below are some photos of some things I got at my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... could handle a light load, so I could at least get a couple of my GIRs out

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ...  think it is something you can without a doubt overcome, and at the end of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at me, my name sat proudly in bold at the front of a line of far more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with ... , the guaranteed hard times at MIT mean that the depth of friendships will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  of pizza. As we arrived at Regis we heard the shocking news of Cory ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the ... when I was at MIT (on the crew) and on top of that I had a job, did

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  green plant patches to spring up at the bases of Pocket-colonized trees ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015