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

  

  .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go

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

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 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

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  procedure, and that the good person makes a decision by trying to rationally ... do you want to live well? B: Because living well would make me happy. A ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B

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

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  themselves "out there" (sometimes by going to a friend's house warming ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  you happen to make a really good friend!). But even beyond this, I ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... making an effort to shine a light on its esteemed programs in the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ’t bitten by a radioactive spider, he’s somebody who created a suit ... make being an engineer cool, that people might want to go to MIT instead ... magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... idea was to make a machine that could replicate and draw calligraphic ... in May. I love a good poster, but it’s cool to make graphics for more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  ’ve since been informed that that’s a misguided conclusion to make, and I like ... ’m good at, I would be a very happy person if I were able to make that kind ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  stress. I like to blame MIT for making me a masochist, but the reality of ... live close to one another! And I get to make helicopters for a living. We ... and features into our cars. I would advise freshmen to make a solid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... ’s no moon!... These are the Death Star and an X Wing, painted by Drew A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008