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

  

  to escape to is where I live and where I’m experiencing the unbelonging ... to impact this country, but is going to impact the world. I’m learning ... live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... around me reflect my own anxiety. IHTFP is studying my butt off to hit the ... consolation is that the salt in my tears will squelch any unsuspecting plants

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... -dramatic “senior” solo to end my time in the group. It’s sometimes hard to notice ... I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... options in situations like this: first, to drag yourself to the final anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age ... , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... , and did. *** Now I am back in Cambridge. It is the morning of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... Red vs. Blue Oh. My. God. The internet is coming! To Boston! Like, like ... like ROFLCON is amazing. I walked up to the registration desk, edging

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community"). Today, my plan is to just grab the food and put it in the fridge to eat ... just so much nicer. 5.40 pm: Everyone I'm talking to lives in the East

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -geared tests have significantly shrunk in the past few decades, which is ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• 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.

  

  decomposition is equal to the number of pearls we place on that edge in the other ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... much more closely in this blog post. The first two presentations went

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... and discovery subjects in the past. To facilitate student engagement, we

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  like this: In the moment, all I see is this: I have to tell myself ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006