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

  

  storytelling—that there is a better way, and that we can work to create that ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... recognize that everyone has to start somewhere. I had a little freak-out about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  need to be, a place I like being. It's trying to find the optimal balance ... sweatpants, and give them to a smiling volunteer holding an enormous bag full ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... did not want to win this year. Much that we had losecomm, a whole ... , I think Mystery Hunt provides a stage to create a work of art unlike

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you ... smells a boolean satisfiability problem to solve. 21:17 - 22:17 Pecker Board Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... my grad student to include in her thesis (oops), so after a while, she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  unfortunate has happened to them, and they just need to be cared for a little ... MIT going through the ups-and-downs together—to make the world a much ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a ... , energizing class that gave me a little more energy to power through the rest of ... we didn’t need to prepare that much. It turns out that this was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  'll need a separate blog post to describe it. Drop of Water told us that in order to help us implement a well, they needed a contact at a local ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ... if sometimes you're left still needing to take a leap of faith. train ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... relinquishes control, fights to stay afoot, and feels an exhilaration of energy

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I realized I needed to run upstairs to grab something. It was a very ... energy to create written records of their experiences and cultural ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  . However, before I commit to working on a new spacecraft, I need to think ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from

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

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

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... marketing materials, and even a mysterious [annotation note="Does anyone have

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder. You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• 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.

  

  piece A—to the square S in order to create a supershape M. We can add the same pieces to the house H to create a second supershape N. M = S ∪ Y ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021