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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... way related to differences in math ability, given that college

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

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify, and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... , in this case, a person) takes to process a given input (such as

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023