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Blog / Academics & Research
Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)
Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Waitlisted
A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…
% pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course -
Blog / People & Identities
am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings
bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of -
Blog / How to Human
winning embracing positive-sum
for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
[Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24
During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the -
Blog / Classes
9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?
of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!
One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... sort of art. The group hosts various art-related speakers, outings, and events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT! One of -
Blog / Classes
A lively Dead Week what i've been up to
a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final, on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit -
Blog / Uncategorized
251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week
talk to lots of different people at MIT about their experiences here, and about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my ... of [annotation note="a wonderful acapella group that i'm a part of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT
that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I have somehow become one of those crusty seniors who still haunts these hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).
Combinator. YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down. A common criticism of ... " instead of tackling hard technology problems that have more world -
Blog / Community Projects
Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory
Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions -
Blog / Events
Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.
This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the ... ! I also did a lot of hair dyeing over the past few days, here are some of my pieces of art. And here is some of my hair, which was done -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)
afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those of climbing animals. There are also new recipes for poisons, thoughts -
Blog / About Decisions
Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less
. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space ... know that this process can be a complicated one. For those of you who ... of luck. I transferred, but if I hadn't things would have been fine -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form
part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via ... rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back -
Blog / Uncategorized
Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile
heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our -
Blog / Extracurriculars
North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.
Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... of small towns with misleading names: Paris, Norway, Oxford, Poland