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  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  Internet Meme  According to Know Your Meme, the first widely circulated ... aged, white women first found Minions to be funny and therefore forged ... ’s attention span is a game of first come, first serve. Trans women simply got to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  "yolo" and decided to attend MakeMIT, MIT's first ever hardware hackathon ... with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  proceeds go to charities which help women). Even after the first monologue ... Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... felt (enlightened) after the show. But I struggled to write anything that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  tells Northern Californians she goes to MIT, their first comment is always ... of room to stretch out and sleep after my first all-nighter of Fall ... Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling '07, Erica '07

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  went straight out the window when I went to my first office hour and ... myself first. To which they (essentially) said “Is it really hurting your ... about? To exist in the ways you need to exist?” And, for the first time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the ... To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on ... past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my ... graduating today as well before heading to different corners of the planet to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn-out was amazing, considering we’re a month into the term and the first round

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  choice. He did not disappoint. The first member of his family to attend ... our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow seniors. "The fact is our high school memories are going to be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  to take a CI-HW (writing-intensive) class first semester. Passing the ... upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall terms, was the class I was looking forward to the most. The problem

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  list have lots of questions, so hopefully you find an answer to yours ... admitted 1467 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend this year. To help with the uncertainties, we

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015