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Blog / About Decisions
To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!
, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,… -
Blog / About Decisions
here comes a thought on decisions
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that -
Blog / Academics & Research
我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事
(Read the English version here!) 我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候，我妈妈经常告诉我，“我们上海人”。这个句子在上海话里面是个口头禅，而且听起来不像普通话。我觉得很棒，常常自己说，“我们上海人，我们上海人”。 我小的时候，我爸爸也会用阿姆哈拉语(埃塞俄比亚的语言)告诉我，“我们是埃塞俄比亚人” 。我也觉得这句子很棒，常常自己用阿姆哈拉语说，“我们埃塞俄比亚人，我们埃塞俄比亚人”。 我去学校的时候，老师告诉我们 “我们是美国人”。可是，我自己觉得，我不是美国人的样子。我自己跟别人自我介绍，就会说，“你好，我叫周婕。我是一半中国人，一半埃塞俄比亚人。” 那时候，移民的孩子分成两种。第一种不喜欢父母的文化，或者想跟美国孩子一样。他们不喜欢吃妈妈做的菜，不喜欢学父母的语言。第二种很喜欢自己家人的文化，跟别的移民孩子玩。那时候，我以为只有这两种，没有什么中间的。 我们呢？我和我弟弟好像是第二种，可是，我们是在丹佛长大的，没有人跟我们一样。这不是丹佛的问题，虽然丹佛的人口不太多样化，但其实，世界上很少人跟我们一样，是一半中国人，一半埃塞俄比亚人。 (去年夏天，我妈妈，弟弟和我弟弟的朋友去中国旅行。我弟弟的朋友也是一个移民的孩子，他是一半中国人，一半美国然） 我们去上海的时候，虽然我可以说“我是上海人”，但是人们常常盯着我和我弟弟。我渐渐长大，也越来越怕跟别的中国人讲话。我会说、写中文，可是，我怕我的中文说得、写得不太好，别人就会笑我。我觉得别人不相信我真的是中国人，总是只看我皮肤的颜色。 特别是在地铁上。不管什么地方，在地铁上，人们都会盯着我们看。我六岁的时候，有一次在上海的地铁上，一位女士盯着我和我妈妈，说，“这个妈妈真不称职呀！她怎么可能让那么小的孩子烫头发？？” 她不知道我是一半非洲人，所以我的头发是自然卷。 在麻省理工学院，我上一门中国电影的课。有一天，我们看了一部电影，叫《苏州河》。《苏州河》的取景在上海。我看到上海的样子，真得非常感动。我意识到，我六年多没回中国去了，而且从来不是一个人去中国。我就又苦又甜地回想起了我们以前去中国的记忆。 （上海的苏州河） 有一次，我们在一个南京公寓住了一个月。我觉得这样好象我们才是真的住在南京。我跟我妈妈、弟弟去商店买东西，然后回来煮菜、吃饭。我跟弟弟去公寓楼的游泳池玩。我们还去看夫子庙，还有南京的夜市。我也经常跟我的表姐玩了，有时也和我妈妈的朋友的孩子一起玩。那个夏天让我真的爱上了江苏，特别是南京。 我问我妈妈怎么说，“对不起，我是美国人，不会说中文”。这样，如果别人问我问题我听不懂就可以这样回答。可是后来我觉得这句子是错的。我要改成：“对不起，我是外国出生的，不会说中文”。因为，我心里还觉得，我是中国人。 我是上海人。我是埃塞俄比亚人。我是一个世界的孩子。这样的孩子不太多，我们的生活挺难的。可是，我为自己感到自豪。 感谢我的中文老师, 张锦。她帮我改正这个博客文章。感谢我自己的妈妈，她也帮我改正这个博客文章，也总是让我和我弟弟学到中国的语言、历史、文化。 -
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CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather
(Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents… -
Blog / Admissions
On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!
along the way. (As for the other stops in Texas - Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston ... some recruitment travel through Southern Texas! Thought I'd do some "live tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.
first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park, FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas ... meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities -
Blog / Academics & Research
Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!
diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.
photoshoot while they supplied the breakfast :P At the end of the first year ... year, we were sitting around and talking about double degreeing at MIT ... requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double -
Blog / MIT Life
Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…
One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT ... they claim to be wide awake. Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Zahir has been ... to those who challenge you at every step of the way but ultimately -
Blog / Athletics
Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.
compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race down a pure ice track head first at 80 miles per hour. Since Antaki lives in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full -
Blog / Admissions
Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•
school friend, and David, a fellow Dallas admit, at the airport! Minor ... Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and -
Blog / Events
The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!
much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... part of his address: Your training at MIT equips each of you ... diploma dance! I have been promising to dance at graduation with a diploma -
Blog / Admissions
The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!
research teams while completing a master’s degree at the University of ... University of Maryland, College Park for a master’s degree, Morehouse College ... in college admissions at Rowan University in my home state of New -
Blog / How to Food
[guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27
. He is from Dallas, Texas, and is Ethiopian-American. He's a Radio DJ, Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer -
Blog / Challenges
Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post
deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America ... siblings and I looked at him. I was the biggest of us at only 5’4” 110lbs ... Americans at the competition of almost 300 students, both stood at the -
FAQ / First-year application
Do I need a high school diploma to apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
&M-Commerce photo/Jared Horn) COMMERCE, Texas - Cory Ward of Yantis and Scott Landers of Cooper, Project STEEM mentors at Texas A&M University-Commerce, are ... fall. This summer they are mentors in Project STEEM, a program at Texas A -
Blog / Events
Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.
the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... ). Students get their rings at the end of sophomore year, and wear them with the ... really. I was near the beginning of the ceremony (Degrees are awarded
