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

  

  's only been flirting with labels for about half a year, and who announced ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... to change your MIT username and registered name to align with a name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  emailed you 3 minutes ago. She is a Sloan student looking for a technical co ... sunlight. With trembling hands, you reach for the platter. And with a ... hoodie and smoking a cigarette. Nursen O. ‘15 You email out looking for an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  kitchen with smoke. so the smoke detectors went off and the fire alarm for ... with the “big lighter” and the sushi knife). Looks pro but to be honest ... -inducing levels of sugar (most likely high-fructose corn syrup), and a similarly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... the world really do become funny with a little time and distance ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  my own experiences with rejection, waitlists, and more, as a part of ... ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  looked up to him, and while I doubt I will ever compete with his genius, I ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  individual paragraph, and close with a conclusion that restates the thesis ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... via Common App for a couple schools so there were overlaps there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  for hours about Luck be a Landlord and formal verification and rice ... , with a C. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all ... I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a ... and chatted about it with the people there. ("good find! it's a little

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... and a project that had left me with about 2 hours of sleep in the other

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of receptions for graduating students, complete with delicious food. And that ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... correctly, nothing was actually lost. But for the trouble, we were granted a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  the local area ECs and me. It was a good way for me to talk with our ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT ... :00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it ... from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when ... , patience, and a little bit of tolerance for the seemingly endless stream of ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  for a test and walk out of it with your heart sinking, while ahead of ... start a novel with the lines, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.” And you ... underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  consumption of a structure. Hylomorphism: both an anamorphism and a catamorphism ... exciting things all of REX—come hang out with us and relax a bit and play ... yourself with a weapon wrought of foam and tape, and strike with the fury of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013