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

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... fact is one of the main factors in about 90% of the things I listed in my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine in appearance or actions, I chose to use “Butch Heroes” to indicate ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  this technology is going to go in the future? Alls I know is, being at ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet ... Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my ... window seat next to two sleeping men and is suffering from that giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory ... began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... institutional donors, but I'm told their goal is to cover 70% of their operating

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... -watching! There is plenty to look at besides passing humans as well, like the old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is never in short supply. My group catered lunches to our group ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• 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 ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... bugs and reconfiguring later, I managed to make it much easier to use for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014