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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican ... panel. Sofia Campos (MCP 2015), Jose G. (Course 16, Class of 2017), Renata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the subconscious of campus, but it is still Someone Else's Problem. We go through all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this ... version of the class offered in the spring, 12.409! Return to Table of ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020