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  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... almost two years, which is probably some sort of life record for me -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen ... beeps every 15 minutes once it is done running, to remind us that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... . The Boston Globe reported soon after with "In latest MIT hack, a tribute ... assembled and traffic copters flew overhead.     MIT facilities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... -noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have Science Essay class. My professor is Seth Mnookin, a science writer and co-director of MIT's Science Writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  exposure to Judaism prior to MIT. Consequently, it never even occurred to me ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of ... MIT we take safety first and everyone made it to dinner in one piece

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  , which is...technically illegal (by MIT policy). When I tried explaining my ... the same, where my Friday through Sunday is filled with [annotation note="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina ... , is that at MIT I've been able to feel seen. Most times for the better ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  easy it is to switch majors at MIT, and I’m grateful that course 9 ... the year when CPT is allowed to take effect at MIT. Because of this and ... says you’re in the EECS department – is that true?” another asked during

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  .  CASE's overall mission is to improve MIT's community awareness of class disparities ... ; Where to go MIT is officially a food desert, qualified as an area with no ... , Emanuel Perez '19, Caroline Mak '18 ---   MIT has a food access

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  direction, but very low confidence in it. CLUBS AT MIT HOLY SHIT This is a ... know. But it's one that I think a lot of MIT students share. But the reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  is not to get MORE students to apply to MIT, it's about getting the ... Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... purposes of this conference, as the Ivies + Stanford + MIT. The Ivy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  time. One thing that I regret about MIT is that I almost never, and I say ... everyone at MIT is weird. But in a different way. I never thought that the ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  first year at MIT, at some event being accosted by brutally geeky middle ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student ... back.     A few years later, I briefly left MIT Admissions

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal ... see, Black Bemis is so called because the walls are painted black and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... true. This is how I got rejected from my "dream school", and how I got

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to ... Connections which is MIT’s alumni association website, via which students can ... website that people use for course planning is https://planner.mit.edu, but

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015