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  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... growing up, but not one of them had ever been beautiful. Like the Aesop ... advancement of women, but not the advancement of femininity, and I would later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  . After exploring the Minuteman trail (including a statue of Uncle Sam; did ... around the entire campus, instead of staying on (or even in sight of!) the ... existing Quidditch teams and their snitches. Some of the snitches will do

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free ... find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  front of our shirts displayed our real names, but the nametags Shannon '05 stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical ... had submitted the name. Add to that the fact that some of the people who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out, my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  You know the band OK Go, right? You remember, the guys with the treadmill video, and the Rube Goldberg machine video, and the marching band ... ," and it is directed by two of my MIT classmates, Jeff Lieberman '00 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional ... of the material was really interesting. I don’t think I acknowledged

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work ... minds. Well, let’s have a tour of the clean, organized and happy version ... Plan. B. I like that these pictures are some of the first things I see

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014