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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... undocumented movement because I think what it does is it opens up a deeper ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fencing takes up most of my extracurricular commitment, so I can’t join most ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  one more lap around the track, has been so that I can be a better soccer ... that we can hear them from across the country. Wow, I will miss it. I ... Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... ="water-ballooned, anyone?"]any other painful form of water you can think of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Squarepants alongside ADPhi brother Ryan Shepard. I can’t sing for squat (and I ... for one of my early blogs: I was a freshman then, and you can totally ... kids yet, but at some point, I will, and I don’t think I can get over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... , where I now work) because they're certain they can't afford it. Given how ... virtual stomping grounds; I've missed you a lot. I like what you've done

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  definitely does not mean rejection. I’ve met so many people here at MIT who ... past few months. And now, I can’t even remember what was on it. The ... would go. I really guess all I can say to the potential class of 2018 now

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life ... moment with the new and improved lexicon of this day and age, I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... class. And at the end of it all, I got the swim credit. Does that mean I can swim? Well if you shoved me into a deep pool, I’d probably drown on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult ... brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  strategies I do, however, think that you can have meaningful work and research ... I also can’t help but feel that the probability of doing so is just ... program can be great for one person but not another) and I honestly can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  literally a decade ago; but, I can definitely say that I knew that MIT existed ... note="rip"]Google Hangouts[/annotation] which means that I can literally ... thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben ... eventually. I have the worst time letting go of things, but you can't force ... with two of the most supportive parents a girl can ask for, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for years. Like this one I found the other day; you can see the date ... saying "I know a spell that can beat that challenge!" Neville's broken into ... goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ! Many people stress out about the "Department" essay, but I can tell you ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I ... human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I ... It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011