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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... , is a very rare and valuable commodity in the science world; he called ... 's right, I think. There are infinite ways to help the world and a finite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  a bagel tree that solves world hunger. Who knows what paradigm

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  world around them a little bit better, against infrastructural ... world-renowned academic prestige shouldn't invalidate the fact that those

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  other. When we were online, the world shrank so much. I had my roommates ... people, and I know they have my back and I have theirs. The world has

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

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

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  - the world was still blurry. I could hardly see straight, and my eyes ... 've traveled around the world without having left the comfort of my own home. So

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... Geography, AP World, or AP European History, this channel is perfect for ... expand your knowledge of the world, society, and science. Truly suggest

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... . Who the fuck does that? And you’re adamant about changing the world ... the world is cruel and you’re still so young. I’m sorry that I can

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  girlfriend. It's great, but it's not the most important thing in the world ... education." —Robo-CJ putting a paintbrush to the eyes of the world's greatest ... analogies eating the best pizza in the world but then realizing that there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... the world through cuisine.[/annotation] Although, back at my middle ... really homesick), I made pakaprow. No matter where I was in the world, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... wouldn't be able to keep that identity alive in the "real world." Wandering ... youth to simply be their authentic selves in a world that chooses to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT ... simply invites another in this contrary world of ours. He was a simple

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... various identities, to draw aside the curtain to reveal our secret worlds ... the rest of the world before I could choose who I wanted to intensely be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• 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…

  

  understanding of the world. I prayed a lot. I learned that I have a fear of ... of the only "applied humanities" programs in the world. And to those of ... a brave new world--and after all, who isn't?

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  explanation for one person might be the most complicated thing in the world for ... the rest of the world, and wonder what will happen to it if its children ... around the world. I’d like to finish by asking you to do me a favor. Think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  experiences, carefully collecting them and expanding her knowledge of the world ... to create programs that will use the minds of MIT to better our world

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  people, and a lot of them—there are parts of the world, and a lot of them ... )[/caption] Bagyo. What the world called Typhoon Haiyan, we called bagyong Yolanda

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that ... confusing, chaotic, unsteady world, I like having a rock-solid foundation on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  regionals and sometimes the world competition. My senior year I added a ... week event, a winery tour. Now that I am simply entering the world

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018