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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor ... TV. It wouldn’t matter if you could use your color vision or not ... color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . “Aye, so he has. Which room’s he got?” “Brights. G5.” “Oof, you’re gonna ... Fi. If you’re there now, enjoy it any way you can, devour it. Let it be the center of your universe, like it was for me. Longing means you’re feeling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends ... : I want you to announce your presence - Me: Announce my p-wait, what? Dumbledore: -say that you're interested in astrophysics, and ask if you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... thought your idea was any good at all. Across the bottom he wrote that maybe ... are nice, but it's weird: you're not smiling in any of them." Sometimes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  all ramblings of an amateur, and your experience is likely entirely different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... writing. We know from reading your applications each year that asking

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  your mother was a Harvard-Columbia educated lawyer working in social ... opportunities to invest in yourself and grow in your craft happen when you’re ... another shouldn’t (ideally) detract from your own. I used to be so sad about

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you’re ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of ... trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  your life, it really will. CPW is the greatest moment in the annual ... PACIFY ME, SON. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? WITH WHOM AM I SPEAKING?" Mikey: "My ... SEND YOUR FIRST-BORN OFF TO A LARGE CITY 1500 MILES AWAY? TO PUT HER

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of in-depth look at Boston’s bridges, I’m sorry, but you’re in the wrong ... Cambridge, you walk along the sidewalk. To your right lies the Museum of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere ... paragraphs. Proceed at your own risk.) This time last year, I was finished ... it there. Now, let’s describe MIT as an ocean of possibility. Once you’re

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  totally different experience at MIT. You’re a little more independent; there ... number patterns in your head? Cool!”). The whole concept of “people like me ... --thinking and then writing down your thoughts is such a great habit, for so many

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn't the only way of doing things, and that your peers aren't the only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... you're curious, it was an essay about Humayun's Tomb in Delhi ... : "Alright," she said, "I'll print it out for you, but there's no way you're

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  field trips and buy things for your projects using a budget. The class ... school will be watching your product presentation rather than just your ... leverage your teammate's strengths. This was the class that reminded me why I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy ... something to define yourself other than your intelligence." This was a worry ... conversations where you are explaining your identity can be exhausting. The whole

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... , when you’re tasked with the specific job of selling yourself, and when ... inadequate, like you’re a small, frail person walking amongst giants. You’re

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... , though. (Bonus thought: would you have to report genetic editing on your ... float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the ... (pisces, cancer, aries, virgo, etc.) based on your date of birth in the ... please tell me your skincare routine).   Individual Responses

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017