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

  

  guys.” I don’t say this all to complain. I have met so many people that have become integral to my growth as a scientist, a dancer, and just as a ... to send a lot of students to high level schools just don’t have a very

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  :47 Your Wibbly Wobbly Guide to Time Travel What happens in your future if ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn ... don’t have to choose between the two. You don’t have to discard your ... ’t feel like you have to give up your background to fit in. Celebrate that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  want your child to succeed and to encourage them to do well, threatening ... think) lectures are actually detrimental to your learning. Sometimes it's a bad professor, other times it's where the lecture fits into your

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... telescope. Look, we weren't using hubble, you have to lower your

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  was it like to have Junot Diaz as your creative writing professor at MIT ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... a lot. But it's also comforting; it is possible to have a fulfilling

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... answers to their essay questions, we still have additional data external to ... 't want to admit people just to have them fail out. But once students have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  a lot of time to yourself to just think. These past four years have ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound ... fall realizations started to show their ugly side. Filling your free time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had ... other commitments, but it was very good for the students to have the ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  name replaced with Nora's is true. If you're still having trouble ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  't have those priorities, and that's okay. You get to choose your own ... bloggers care to complain/rave? 3. I should have stated this at the outset ... tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... : If we have to nitpick, the gym doesn’t have mirrors in front of the ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to ... attempts to broadly redress inequality and advance justice — have been ... relevance of diversity to MIT’s educational mission have been developed in

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to ... part. But even that didn't guarantee that I'd have any money to spend to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk ... to help me learn my own. I shed a few tears at times, but managed to ... in a few months. I have three and a half more years to keep trying

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  is proof enough that MIT students have enough time in their lives to ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... ”) Center. Hackers have played to the strengths of the unique physical

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011