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  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I'm teaching again, this time a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  professor. 6. Anonymous asked, "I was just wondering, how much time did you ... Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me around the country and world. This IAP, however, I had the most free time since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  During my freshman orientation many, many months ago, I came across a girl named Anjali Thakkar: My first thought when I met her was, "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two days to pack, and one night when Javi and I will order Thai food from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I ... comments) as soon as I can. Also, I do expect that next year's freshman class ... be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... moments, then you'd never know you had one. (3) Time and time again I've said that I don't care, that I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes ... facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... it "Xena." That's so cool. But I bet MIT would have come up with an ... ; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... all together, I think we balance out pretty well. :) A colorful shot

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  borrowed it, and how long I spent listening to it. And so… after forty ... Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... /artists, so I only actually recognized one out of my top five artists this year

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... some things that i've taken away from this summer. these things aren't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  , how did we even), I took a class from The Most Excellent Professor ... bioengineering as an undergrad.) And what I learned was just how magnificent of a ... antibiotic resistance.  (I mean, honestly. How did we ever do without Doge

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to ... different places and experimenting with how much I opened up before I found a place where I'm comfortable. And now that I'm here, I can really feel how

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  interesting to see "how the other half lives." I was grateful for the ... you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been blogging very much recently, and, if we're being honest, I've felt pretty

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  to these kinds of things, so we’ll see how long it lasts):  I ... Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have ... Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A. SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018