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• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  brings Randomites and their Blahajs together to feast on cheese, crackers ... ’s attention span is a game of first come, first serve. Trans women simply got to ... Hunger Games, Avatar the Last Airbender), I spend hours watching nearly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... members to come and speak about their academic departments, and to bring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  bestselling video-game of all time. The one time I tried using Minecraft was to ... at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  there, and we can still make good memories together. Now to be clear ... Many bloggers have been posting about their decisions to live off campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  through life that was beautifully put together. I then ubered back to the ... About a month ago, I left campus to take a little trip to Houston for ... ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Lunches! Every week a group of ESGers come together to make lunch for the ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes ... , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  must have been coming from 90 degrees to my left, from over the BU Bridge ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  everything together! Step 7: Worry Worry that everything is going to fall ... Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... comments and questions! Please continue to do so...or, if you're lurking, don't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  that the game I was playing was bullshit, I still wanted to win the game ... game are not bullshit, especially if you otherwise lack the resources to ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  games and people who liked playing them. i talk to alumni about these ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... is small (4 students, one prof, total), together we make a writing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... together, and the adults would chatter, and the kids would run around the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  came to MIT, my plan was to study EECS, start a video game company, and ... disguise...kind of) and still have managed not to pull an all-nighter (for ... studying, switching from mechanical engineering to a completely different

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population. Italy is also home to 50+ MIT undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  across the Longfellow Bridge with Jesse '09 (who says he didn't notice, but ... inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023