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

  

  removed. The parents of some green card holders and U.S. citizens will be ... lived there, and I had to call my parents to prove it. So the sense of not ... beyond citizenship to the existential question of who belongs, and who

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  early enrollment student, and had the option of staying. I should have ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a ... toolbar of my laptop screen. No internet connection. I leave the call and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . The Office of the First-Year maintains a list of these kinds of subjects ... should have (most of) the requirements memorized by the end of your first ... parts of the GIRs you've done, and which parts you're missing. You don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First ... for the rest of my life? What hopes and lingering doubts do I have about ... and interesting reasons, like wanting to research the physics of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the image."]dynamic range ... complicated to minimize the amount of excess metal, but after some back-and ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... transmitter (among other things), and all was right with the world. Of the student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder. You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  separation (noun): The notion of intertwined spacelike and timelike dimensions ... blog post and get an additional 20% discount off the low, low price of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... first of its kind in the US. (2) A student who participates in research ... classroom, in the lab, and outside of class). wanking (v.) - self

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... you sail against the direction of the wind?" joseph, claire and i sat ... extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... and destroying future selves, all of the time, with everything we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... , or the average of your GPA in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and ... naivety. I fully stand by what I have written, and some of the arguments I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  hunt happened in the first quarter of 2014. After a rejection and a few ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... important stories, about MIT and about planning our futures. The first is Drop

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  , and get far. But an undergraduate education is only the first step ... school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: a Harry Potter fanfiction

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... of the most talented and intelligent students alive, and among them are ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them ... been full of hellos. I've met so many first/second/third cousins and great aunts and uncles for the first time in recallable memory. It's an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015