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So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.
in the footsteps of another blogger, Jessica Z. ‘27, and serve as the chair for the Ring Committee of the Class of 2028 with 11 other amazing committee members. Now, for people not familiar, MIT has had a tradition of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals
='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this
that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS
reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the -
Blog / Classes
Collections Simple
things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
making art for fun what a crazy concept!
When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... an “Institute of Technology.” Having been talking to other class of -
Blog / Challenges
bumpers a revelation i had while bowling
bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves -
Blog / How to Human
things that went well reflections on my first semester
It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I know that. Lots of things happened, and particularly this fall (what with -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has -
Blog / How to Human
Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery
by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or ... be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th -
Blog / MIT Life
Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans
. This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Español Foreign Languages at MIT
spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set
and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up
the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…
Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves -
Blog / Academics & Research
Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.
When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive
Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the highly maneuverable fins of the Bluegill sunfish: all of these natural -
Blog / Admissions
Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.
all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!
Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly
