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  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of ... way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop-chop-chop of helicopter blades overhead filled the air. We were very fortunate to have no immediate members of the MIT community directly injured by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its interdisciplinary nature, or the fact that of its over 500 researchers, half are

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the Christian ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes ... May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities ... Council, or Panhel.) All of the fraternities/sororities were divided into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the ... the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of ... culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  in Florida. Last night began the first of four presentations with my colleagues from Princeton, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. (Check out the rest of ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  one of the recipients of the 2006 Hometown Hero awards. The awards are presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto ... rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... Tumblr, because I really loved it. The novel tells the story of a secretive

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited ... 's the dozens of objects that appear in Celeste that make it interesting. Aside from the regular cast of spikes and bottomless pits, there are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don ... puzzlehunt? The MIT Mystery Hunt is a puzzlehunt, the biggest and grandest of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here ... -minded people, Randall made a guest appearance, carrying whiteboards of the comic ... . Crowning almost two decades of political dissatisfaction and unrest under the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of ... rather than sitting in a car on top of the track. We had the car-on-top-of-the ... was called "Danger Zone", which makes me think of the movie Top Gun. You

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... astrophysicist. 3264x2448 pixels, really?? Sorry, but your photo of Tim the Beaver

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... ever-worsening condition of Senioritis and the stress of knowing that we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... time, there's the question of, will it work? will it be the same? i ... .i can't talk about it too much because spoilers, of course. the hunt is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021