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

  

  . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... , stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant ... rarely received packages of any sort, so I was pretty curious. Not being a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... the MIT population, so be warned. --- To all incoming MIT freshmen, MIT is hard. It will be harder than anything you've seen. But you'll be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research ... ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in ... with phone calls and text messages and FaceTime, I would be able to stay

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... aspirations?(*) (200-­250 words)." And this is what I said. "I aspire to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... that doesn’t come before my own stress level and well-being as a priority. And I remember next time to be more mindful of promising time I cannot

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... own, I thought this would be it. I’d have my own life, pursue my hobbies frequently, and be happy with my work. Turns out the answer isn’t that simple

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... every facet of what I had previously assumed to be an irreconcilably ... certainly couldn't allow myself to get my hopes up, or my poor psyche would be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... books being published by small, independent presses to renowned authors ... thrilling world, and a strange one, and the inertial being in me, while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... -690 5% From what you wrote you'd think being in the 700-740 range and being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  cousins will be graduating high school as well; many of the Class of 2015 ... random, or farcical, or shouldn't be taken seriously. It also doesn't mean ... categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to ... , the Margaret Cheney was smaller and many repairs needed to be managed

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

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living ... 'll meet up again in whichever city we happen to be in at the same time and ... knowing when "one day" will be. I don't want to say goodbye, unwilling to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and others are bitter. I liked being confused by interesting projects and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... out of my comfort zone. Navigating unknown territory – be it a school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... liveable wages and health insurance for students, and to be welcoming and ... sometimes felt like they were able to be that way in spite of MIT, not because

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing ... drone flying, is yachting. Sailing yachting, to be specific. Larry also

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... being able to find any common ground. But this semester I switched majors ... in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  process. Sometimes, holistic academic processes are criticized as being misguided. "Academic merit", it is suggested, should be the sole dispositive ... system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little ... wouldn't be surprised if you didn't recognize me. I barely recognize myself ... anger. It doesn't feel like me. I thought being away from MIT would start

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015