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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... combination of slide presentations and chalktalks. Sometimes there are also p

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020