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  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot ... , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color blind residents that used to live on Beast. I'm incredibly proud of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my ... buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I honestly welcomed the onslaught of final projects and exams since it made me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  starting, summer was over - all kinds of depressing things like that. This ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to ... of 2010 (which makes me a sophomore), and I'm Course VI (i

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one ... that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress on problems. Hence, a semester of Pass/No Record acted as an

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017