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Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!
For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This -
Blog / Challenges
Seattle The siren call of real adult life
really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks
the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS ... subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines -
Blog / MIT Life
Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride
who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here ... community what it is! Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure
their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
#Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni
, much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page -
Blog / MIT Life
Not About the Name First impressions
About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"
college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... . The inside is magnificent, and the history is quite interesting. All of the objects and paintings in the museum are exactly as Ms. Gardner left -
Blog / About Decisions
“Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of ... as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the -
Blog / MIT Life
Color by Numbers
fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I -
Blog / Events
Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.
minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil -
Blog / Uncategorized
Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism
start circling around and around in my head, descending into a state of ... worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... falling in love. You're thinking their thoughts and feeling their emotions -
Blog / Announcements
MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update. This year — inclusive of both Early and Regular -
Blog / Academics & Research
Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome
Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... asparagine was named after asparagus, and that if our body pH levels dropped below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both -
Blog / MIT Life
Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?
The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I -
Blog / MIT Life
Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…
States and all proceeds will be re-invested into the program, the shelter ... travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT
states I now call home. However, my interest for blogging and writing ... application, and 69 completed it. A few days ago, Lydia, Kris, Michael, Ceri, Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers -
Blog / Academics & Research
9 / Headache 68 days to go
my awareness to power relations, infrastructure, and state building and ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care -
Blog / Academics & Research
Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers
Laboratory, the FBI, the Department of Defense, the United States Army and the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and ... , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs