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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 / 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 / MIT History & Culture
History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today
year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At ... the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring -
Blog / Uncategorized
Decisions, Decisions decisions!
CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive -
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 / 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
The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista
You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its students. And if you knew how expensive this software was you'd be relieved -
Blog / How to Food
Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))
CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost -
Blog / Challenges
leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester
leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically -
Blog / Academics & Research
To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.
will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then -
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 / How to Human
Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.
similarly-priced plans offered by Cingular and T-Mobile, and gives you free ... phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and