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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it ... should be; if you think something would look good, you should try it. And I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring ... intro class for my liking. I would have preferred a much bigger chem class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and ... learners, here's a Dummy's Guide to how MUN works: I'm sure you enjoy the ... and best wishes! :) On November 7, I received an email. To be honest, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the job and I’m nervous. Do I even still remember how to write code ... just dropped me off, It’s so much colder than I thought it would be, So I ... part of me eternally alive. But I’m not sure how. December 24, 2017 It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  this past semester, I thought I would close the year out first with this ... time what I was writing would garner the approval of our communications ... introduction and a general idea of how I wanted to go about designing my figures

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  grandmother, for instance, would much rather hear about that nice boy I'm going ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... how and why the human visual system works the way it does. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  [annotation note="can you tell I just finished 'How I Met Your Mother'"] LEGEN ... articulate. It’s the tiny things - finding my decorated bedroom exactly how I ... Chef (as an avid watcher, I’m sure she would win). Which leads me to the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  the IAP website, I found some pretty interesting activities: Opera ... ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP ... found, some days later. Please sign up at the website. Lone hunters

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades, I spent three weeks at nerd camp. I was what multiple exes have described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I love her, was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can ... Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  guess I can see their position, but I ask you, how were we going to ... where I suspect that in several years I would be sad if I hadn't been ... . Too bad I wasn't a blogger when the TTC happened. That would have been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  comfortable. I really enjoyed noticing how over time, some actions became more ... lid with a little ball for the handle. The jar would be pretty easy, I ... looking into how I could keep glassblowing after I move away. WOW was I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who ... lecture. Watching Rambax at Pulse, I was able to experience what we had

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  , and fell in love with how supportive and fun the community was. i ended ... of finding a living group i vibed with. this year, i would be planning ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  all I know is that I want to do something great. I just have no clue how ... ’t what I think would satisfy me long term. This, of course, comes with its ... leads that, depending on how I feel about ML stuff following my UROP, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  , you’ve probably wondered: How does MIT make so many pumpkins every year ... [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... considering how little time I devote to weeb pursuits while at MIT is pretty ... beginning of my freshman year, I would binge-watch hundreds of episodes of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020