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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  the psychedelic movement that flourished in the 60s/70s. Post ... into 60s lore and learning about the inception of my favorite music was ... and place in the fabric of the 60s counterculture movement. I broke down

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  are the same and it’s funny how easy it is to overlook a lifetime of ... privilege in a year, or four years for that matter. Maybe, that’s the most obvious thing in the world.  VI. In Jane Wong’s book “How to not be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  that i simply hadn’t felt until june. (i hope i’m not worrying anyone who’s ... way. it’s reasonably common for people to permanently change how they ... than that i felt inspired by jimmy butler’s 3:30am workouts (my times for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  importance of diversity to our nation’s success in the global economy; and (3 ... from the nation’s most rigorous and elite institutions.” Affirmative ... . Instead, MIT considers all aspects of each candidate’s background, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... !  Here’s my first impressions of those classes: some preconceptions turned

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  "] a m o n g u s s u s s y[/caption] Prompt: amongus Okay, I promise I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  it’s still just a board on wheels, but details like these help ... my stance was regular-footed. That’s good, because then I didn't have ... , and it works really well because there’s these bricks that jut out of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  If you haven’t seen this year’s pi day announcement video yet, please ... last year’s pi day video, which you can watch here or read about its making here.  I dragged Angela into talking about this year’s video

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  what was going on it’s sad that the world isn’t safer. it’s sad that ... power to address their insecurities. it’s sad that when one of those ... necessary because everyone would always be trustworthy. but that’s not the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  times are hard, I'll pass, purge classes but I shan’t have lied. It’s true

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I ... that you are miraculously allowed to eat. All of it. Tonight. That’s ... that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  list of short, optional readings related to each week’s sessions is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  ; P.S. For those new here, here is an old video I did after my frosh yr

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  all up until I got to paint a mural and join Borderline’s exec board in ... community & adMITs and learn more about what everyone else’s been up to ... , community building project that brings together all of Borderline’s unique

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , and despite the fact that it’s been allocated into more vibrant, color ... guidance on my prospective major(s). he told me two things: 1. in my case ... do whatever you want, it’s PNR!” and “develop good habits lest be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  between Subway’s parent company and the franchisee that ran this location

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  took me wayyyy to long to translate!!!   P.S. I think you have to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... boring to read. I started to re-write them and that’s when it hit me! No

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  different. That I don't really belong. In the U.S., when I go to different ... natural to me than the aggressiveness and volume of the U.S. Even Starbucks ... with MIT and the U.S. have been like, and helping each other figure out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018