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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start ... teaching abroad"]IAP,[/annotation]when an email is sent to our dorm mailing ... ="Campus Preview Weekend, during which we welcome prefrosh to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... checked them and learned from my mistakes. I didn’t try to listen to music, which regrettably distracts me from being able to process what I’m reading

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this ... ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... to hide from me. I put them back where I thought they might belong and ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to ... by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007