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

  

  doesn’t have to struggle like we did—once you’ve been through that, you ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... ’re basically told to be really scared and to try to make as much money as

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the ... boil over from a few rooms away. Burning milk smells amazing. You turn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  the latter. Don't feel the need to impress each other. You're already ... building a class and a community. You don't need to apologize for what you ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get ... like planning a trip would take so much time and energy. I didn’t start ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... yourself (not that I ever really need any more excuses to laugh at myself ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My ... expectations, and connected me with the resources I would ultimately need to meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  , I've kept to the daily video filming/editing/posting without too much ... sleep. UPDATE 4/16/15 Second time I've needed to bump this post to make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... 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 / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  list While today I would tell applicants “There’s no need to apply early ... stamp is sure to be appreciated. 7. If you think you may need financial ... forms Aside from the application form needing to be typewritten or written

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  [annotation note="I think everybody needs to take this class"]17 ... try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... often as you want. However, once you submit your regular registration, you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady ... so much work at once. The first comment I hear from my friends in my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  40 minutes just in case it starts to burn down. [carousel image1 ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to unsettle them as much as possible. While Urban Walcott urbanized with two

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... much, kind, mysterious friend-when-I-needed-one.) Over the course of the ... , that we cannot damage the pearls! We need to show that if our linear

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , because I thought I had to. I thought I needed a pair of sperrys if anyone was ever going to respect me. I thought that I needed to respond to ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  't, and you always need to have more buffer. Always. Hence why I'm making ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish ... half of Nashville was destroyed and we needed to help sort through the ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... -campus, except to go to FSILGs, and that they needed to wear purple wristbands all ... for the admissions office to laud the event so much, given that it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  energy is starting to dip. By 11pm, the reviewers are finally all gone ... transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... place to go, and these enabled me to take the time I needed to heal. (That ... leave may or may not be the right path for you to take. But you don’t need

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015