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  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  you're more likely to know about it and apply. If your parents went to ... , happened to have a natural aptitude for subjects like physics, and ended up ... have really driven home to me, in a pretty personal way, the very real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  , we must include the time it takes for the sound to travel up the well ... memory you need to use to process them. As humans, we have approximately ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  they'd set up like 15 people holding 6 boards and you'd have to wonder ... decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  hallway is quite muffled.) But that's not all these rehearsal rooms have to ... Ensemble is having an "open rehearsal" next Monday 9/30! If you're an MIT ... ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new ... about it before- some of you have even lived it yourselves. In addition to ... distinguish a time when I was not trying to convince myself that I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... other teams are still working on it! But it's so awesome to be working ... I knew, someone had shoved the phone into my hands to give the answer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  's warm now, and that's all that matters. I'm going to go outside to read or do work or nap or something. So FIRST is going to have to wait. Maybe ... I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... being able to share my perspective.  While I frequently have opportunities

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the rest are singles. We have nice things on our walls. This is something I tacked up outside my room: And since then, people have been adding their

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  a wonderful MIT Alum. Be sure to check the listing on your My ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  of my voice, which I have already judged to be less than good. Now, on ... lifetime opportunity to originate a role for the stage. You have never been ... 's over. I did it. I won't have to wonder "what if". And I found out that in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  have to compromise on something if you play your cards right. The ... since they didn't have their financial aid information yet. We decided to ... that it didn't have a great location; it was close to a highway, so I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  year this time, I looked at these pages with no particular attention to ... just have two other relevant things to say- 1) Seriously don’t get caught ... had I decided …not… to put myself forward (e.g. HEY DO YOU WANT TO HAVE

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  pursuit of innovative ways to serve our community. During a time when ... invaluable contributions to our society, and have helped to shape our nation ... I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of ... doing that day. I was lucky enough to have been awarded a Global Education ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  had to call him that (we practiced saying it multiple times before he ... .  You don't have to cure cancer or meet the president or take over the world to get into MIT; you need to have the passion to save the world one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine ... IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  . Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have ... This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a ... ’s terrible that someone who turned out to have potentially concealed and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012