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

  

  , MEng '16 I'm bi! I didn't connect the dots until my 20s. MIT is a ... isn't to attach an "oughtness" to "outness," but to identify a ... the words, “I’m gay.” It sounds dramatic, or maybe it doesn’t, but it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  's from then on." Well, correct me if I'm wrong but life doesn't usually ... 've missed? Well, I'm not a slow worker and I'm not a fast worker. I'm not brilliant and I'm not dumb. And with 5 classes I didn't have much. Psets

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... . Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  out I don’t think I can talk about it anyway. (I’m transitioning to a ... group for people who didn’t have enough time for an a cappella group). I’m ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So ... and exceed those expectations, but otherwise didn’t lay out a clear path ... , white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... a brave new world--and after all, who isn't? ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  , tiny doors, and secret gardens we aren’t allowed into. It is my and Cory ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/3c0QZjNd5Jhyeud7SQJWE5?si=T-rOHNjOQCadaHiwGZxFvA Road trip, day one ... living in a car required. Vanlife isn’t glamorous unless you spend ... to London, where a writing internship was waiting. Surely Corona wouldn’t

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  was trivial), but now I'm happily a Biology (and pending History) major ... as a "melting pot" of cultures. Isn't it only fitting that there exists ... stilted and shouldn't be submitted as a complete essay, it still goes to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  awesome college students in the country. I'm glad that I didn't spend any ... be a happy college memory. I'm glad that I acted on whim. I thank whim ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  traditionally stands precariously at the edge of a cliff. We don't really have ... , asked friends for feedback, wrote an email, and set up a spreadsheet. I'm ... Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  wrote a whole paper about it. And that was only fifteen students. We didn't ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn't ... or humanities (though we suspect we just didn't get a lot of humanities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I’m ... didn't notice or if there was a rise of Avatar related stuff around May ... as he was a child and couldn’t speak out (and when he did, he was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  . Luís was also a good student. Unlike Nicolas T. Paraschos, he appeared ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  discord light mode, also I'm '雨新'[/caption] CJ: And I said yes. And then a ... degrees out. I didn’t have my good jacket with me, because it was in a box ... read the announcement, and it didn’t sound like a prerecorded one. Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  of me. It’s a risky technique, so I won’t advise it here, but if it ... !), and it’s a great privilege and an amazing opportunity you mustn’t miss ... campus because Boston is a special place. And don’t miss out on MIT Reads

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... feel a bit old. Social media as we know it today didn't exist when we ... world can't find any students who can build a decent web page? (Answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently ... came to a few (scary) realizations: I wasn't interested in anything ... , no glimmer or sheen of opportunity; just words on a screen. I couldn't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  conversation to remember. I could never learn from a professor I don’t know ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through campus windows. Every classroom exuded a dream glow. Every view overwhelmed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015