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• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  argue in this blog that Blahaj’s popularity can be contextualized within ... Blahaj have in common is that they all disrupt the norm of how sharks are ... ” becomes “at least I can get a hug from a silly shark.”  While everyone can

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design ... your own things that other people can use." - steve jobs   I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... ." Disclaimer: I'm literally a child. I'm like 19. So I don't know how exactly qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you ... popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  ? ;) This is the obligatory "oh-wow-I-can't-believe-how-fast-time-is-passing-and-I ... ago, I had just completed my final exams, which can only be termed as ... MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... on many airlines and seen how air travel functions in several countries

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  . maybe i can write about how i’ve joined Burton Conner’s Transition Team so ... . focus. can i cram an intensive reflection on how much (or little) i’ve changed in these few months at MIT into these last eight minutes? can i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my ... executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can ... truthfully honest about how sometimes life can collectively suck. I get to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  culture, it enabled it in many ways. I'm interested to see how things change ... 's interesting to think about how student community will change with it. In this post, I want to take a closer look at dorm structure, how it impacts

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... CHEST.  i wanted to leave everything, including myself, behind. in junior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... , you can actually figure out what you're supposed to be eating. In this ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy ... a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :)

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  . During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently ... , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  Irving Berlin and Abby Lincoln, to name two. I liked how she was extremely ... specifically, I liked how she improvised and had fun and made it conversational ... cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021