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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... get to know better). [caption id="attachment_55158" align ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• 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…

  

  AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get ... bored, and if I did get bored, I'd have space and skills enough to find ... semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  just get the library." Vincent Crabbe (Bella X. '25), to Neville: "Your ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own ... , you get to build your own microscope and micro fluidic device then ... . You get to pick your own research area and dive into any topic related

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... friend, to walk out of your dorm room now and genuinely ask how the person

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think ... crosses the river. The museum (which MIT students get free admission to!) is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... managed my own business. II. Applying to MIT Walk us briefly through your ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  add a few years to your lifespan. I remember dedicating quite a few ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.]

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009