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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the sea. I arrived at MIT freshman fall and finally got to go through ... ? Coming into MIT, I had been told over and over: "you will need to find ... surrounded by other queer Asian MIT students made me seem utterly unremarkable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... know dozens of people here at MIT who went to the IMO. I now know dozens ... still think of myself as good at math. But being at MIT means being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... wondering!!) I took 6.867, one of MIT’s machine learning classes, last ... these things fall by the wayside when negotiating the insanity of MIT. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  Harvard bridge into Cambridge, MIT growing in the distance, and feeling the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly ... , has anyone come across a great resource (other than the MIT Admissions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  was half African, so my hair was naturally curly. At MIT, I’m taking a ... ; A huge thanks to my 21G.110: Chinese Streamlined 4 lecturer at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech. So when mystery hunt rolled around this year and Caltech was flying over to stay with us, we decided…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... -wizard tournament that is MIT. You all have worked so hard up to this point, finding ... pursuing your passions, apply to other schools. Maybe MIT will become your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  our investors made a good chunk of his money from the infamous MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you’re alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth. This is improvisation: there is…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... were valedictorians of their high school. Aha! MIT must highly value ... : The admit rate for students from Wisconsin went up 2%, MIT must really want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  amount of work MIT students have. I usually respond that, while students ... MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for ... all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... ="aligncenter" width="525"] can you guess where it is[/caption] It's like doing the MIT ... go around MIT, you might spot these colored dots in out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• 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…

  

  Silicon Valley, I do need to admit that my educational trajectory to the MIT ... MIT. I have a hunch that the smattering of MIT students from my eighty ... started singing even more than before, joined the MIT/Wellesley Toons, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once, stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant fascination, fascination because it was such good writing and MIT seemed like

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  past 2 years. During every season of MIT life, different situations ... summer after freshman year, I lived at pika: an MIT independent living ... note='a weekend where admitted students visit MIT to experience a ton of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023