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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... ’t due to lack of interaction with actual black people. I know for some ... an area with a very large black population. However, for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science, along with all three of my ... Optimization), and 15.276 (Communicating with Data). I have come a long way ... and lecture notes. This time I marked them all up with short summaries

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... 're such very different genres, arguably even mediums, of writing - each with ... the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... semester, I am ultimately unburnt. Just lightly toasted with a warm golden ... "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of 2020 who are all struggling with the same basic decision as Sam: whether

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  , going to the Weekend was correlated with enrolling. One of the important ... weekend, the Tech had a picture on its front page with people lugging ... , ate supper with me in Lobdell, and took me to a couple of parties that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... humankind, working with others to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  . You'll register with your advisor, and everything will be fine, even if ... blurry because I grabbed them with snipping tool.) I won't go into what ... 1.007: Big Engineering: Small Solutions with a Large Impact 1

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... 't rub shoulders with famous people all that frequently. Friends who find

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color ... discrimination issues are talked about and interacted with. It also literally ... ’s president. (This article covers that progression) In contrast with U. of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Milk's application (with permission) below; you can also download it ... birthday with all of its friends last night.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  watched the moon begin its eclipse with a group of other residents. It was ... water glimmered with the reflections of Boston’s lights, and I played what

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

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

  

  announced that all GRTs will be replaced with ravenous bears. You write an ... with taxonomy. They draw out a tree. Kingdom Animalia only has one line ... with you discover that the student group was disbanded in 1967. It is

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

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... yourself can be scary-- especially as someone who doesn't really "go with the ... lives. This means that when you're struggling with something, you can

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  already in the room. She was getting help with a 6.036 lab. As I finished up with the student and prepared to leave for 806, I could hear her saying ... . Now I'm deciding again who I will live with next year. I've made such

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... -to-face with Davie '12, a French House friend. He waved. I waved. He said that I ... with my professor - and sent the elevator back to 1. When the doors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• 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 ... you're immediately involved with. 3. It's okay to be part of a group ... you're involved with -Struggling to keep up academically -Calendars that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... 've pulled all-nighters arguing with fellow consonant-pronouncers about

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

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

  

  a drinking fountain. It was actually functional, with water coming out ... back with another genius quip: It is because of this excellent, high ... . —anonymous climbing up a shaft with fiberglass walls. —anonymous getting a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020