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

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go ... ,” he began, “and I’m extraordinarily happy to be in here, considering I

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... their spring 2010 edition) I should have died by now, considering the way ... entering MIT. Don't worry, I'll wait.) And three, because I'm about to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  undergraduates. Students must be supported by their alma mater -- in this case, by ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer way to Cambridge, UK; even though I miss him, I'm so happy and proud

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... feel lucky that he chose to apply to us! Maybe you’ll be surprised to ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  I don’t think there was a way to experience it without being stressed ... commands one by one via an arduino, but when we tried to send commands from ... exhausted by 10pm when the lab closed -- I could barely stay awake to hang

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... facing the ocean, know that you’ll never be able to look into the eyes of ... leaving everyone behind.  When I came to MIT, I quickly met lots of people

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... , removed my tools from the makeshift mat, and then wrapped everything to be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... off. I sit down to start this blog post (and multitask by texting the ... constitution using only my phone. (It appears to be a mostly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  being able to channel all of my aggression and anger out of my body and into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... my brothers were trained as engineers; I, by contrast, come to this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... supposed to be like a current events + historical context seminar"]21H.00

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  an alarming rate from the shoots, and wanted to know what would be the ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do ... disks for work computers. By the end of it Erich asked if I'd be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... probably be ruled by dolphins within a matter of weeks. Anyways, Nora was ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  want to knock out both classes before spring, this could be good. Usually ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... signing up for 6.100A, but quickly realized I would be better suited for 6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble, dedicated to Downtown Boston. Boston Common Located conveniently by the Park ... ? That would be the world-famous Kilted Colin, entertaining by Faneuil Hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... on campus, all the U's are spelled with V's since they are meant to be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  be a "tool" is just a way to avoid trying to find out who you are as a ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... being a college student for once. The easy way out, though, was to load ... ;Application academically incorrect," figure out a way to explain that you pre-reg'd

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  believed that what stands in the way becomes the way: it is only by moving to ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  studying amateur Astronomy. I always wanted to come to MIT and be an ... be nice to everyone, even to some particularly cruel professors, never ... better to be educated and intelligent than not. Be nice. This cannot be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010