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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
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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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are ... 's technically full-stack development, but most of the problems I dealt with were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... fall! Interstellar was created by four students in the class of 2022 ... Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... .  Actual footage of the inside of my brain during reading season Then, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... not only your experiment, but also the lives of millions of bacteria

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a lot of other unique things that happen on this campus during the year

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• 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.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in-depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... that sounded like the first syllable or two of “congratulations,” so he ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... additions or deletions in physical traits or behaviors over the course of ... creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... discretion.[/caption] Now the rest of this post will contain detailed ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... blowing out the candles. 2: I was mass 1 of a driven coupled harmonic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018