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  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] btw this is 35 sheets of 17”x11” paper painstakingly de

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate ... . At my advanced age my pace of eating has slowed down somewhat (though I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver ... which they got rich, of course. You hear all kinds of stories about MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011