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

  

  the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  all the mailing lists you want to stay on because you know mit is going ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  electronics on board.  So here's the boathouse from another angle: (6 ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... an alarming rate from the shoots, and wanted to know what would be the ... was high time they got a server. And what luck, we were just the guys to

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

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a ... trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just

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

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things ... . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020