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• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I could help let prefrosh know about their efforts. Their guest post is what follows, sans attribution as per…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  On Tuesday, January 27th, Snowstorm Juno hit. Classes were cancelled for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  Hello all, it’s been a while since I’ve done a Hidden Treasures at (and around) MIT so I thought I would bring it back with something I’ve taken full advantage…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my classes have already assigned the final…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

   my life.

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan, for too often they have…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  'm excited! "And God, let me enjoy this. Life isn't just a sequence of waiting

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael C. ’16 explained in his post about…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... life of its own, and kind of sucks you in. But you’ll also need to be ... life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one’s fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain sports.  These…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the biggest names in technology, student designers,…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  people's dreams to life. They made it possible for people like you and me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  goes beyond the disciplines of engineering and the life sciences.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family and celebrations usually last for the entire day and are structured around a central theme,…

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT’s version of homework. And by “MIT’s version”, I mean that while a typical pset might only…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning: (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money Luckily, thanks to our…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Howdy homies! Has it really been over a year since I posted this? Holy giggles it has! Now I don’t know about you beautiful folks, but I still have four…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop? Well, it’s this wonderful machine…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012