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

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

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

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens with hexagonal cross-sections at various angles, the physical properties granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  I am a PRO at stick figures. Just wanted to show you some of my ...   Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to fulfill this requirement by the end of your sophomore year. (Mitra note

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question: "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... extracurriculars at difficulty levels 95, 70, and 65 out of 100 difficulty points ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  total budget at the top of this list. Make it your goal not to exceed it ... on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
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  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  their ECs while they are at MIT and continue in the role of teacher when ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008