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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... and the relative freedom (save for some FCC regulations) to do whatever ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... feeling guilty for. And soon, shame turned to suppression and denial. Middle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  affinity for some subject early on that they also had access to, and could ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... more for having gone through this journey and brought myself to this ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a ... manifesting for you all"](and also a huge congrats to those of you who have ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office would match admitted students to current students for overnight stays over ... admitted women than men chose to attend. For minority students, the 1981

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... closed to construction, and for a long time all you could see as you rode ... waiting at the MGH station around 5:00 PM, waiting for the train to come in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Shooting for Top Gun: Aiming to Arm Students with Life Skills for College and ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... and hidden to make it harder for people, they are not impossible. They ... place to get some (training wheels) life experience and I'm grateful for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023