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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... book; it’s good fiction, even if I definitely wouldn’t want to be friends ... it might look good to other people - do it for yourself! Books I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  to just be grateful. It is not something that I can easily explain or ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... don’t want anyone else to go through it—but I hope he learns to fight as

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  streaming capabilities and can be used to project presentations from a laptop ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I ... , friendly energy to the space)'][/annotation], to tell you more about it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... neighbors, making it difficult to track specific colonies’ survival. You ruin

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... my best to actually bring you useful information applicable to the ... is totally not worth it. You have to take eight HASSes anyways, it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  this recruitment process with you. It can be easy to want to join the ... talk to every single sorority at least once. It was admittedly pretty ... so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  connected with my teachers; I can’t express how necessary I think it was to ... —me. But it can be so difficult, sometimes, to stop the thoughts from leaking ... . But it can also make you feel tiny—insignificant.  I’m not sure how to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  statement. It's using this technical background to help me lead. Product ... well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In ... getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as ... everything to do with economic inequalities and social hierarchies. It’s a lot

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010