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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... freshman year of college, where I experienced being out for the first time ... ’m queer. I believe what this generation of college age kids know pretty well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation ... colleges. MIT has some of its undergraduates give tours around campus while ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... .[/annotation] It leads to Allston, the land of college students and recent grads, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... that this is actually one of the worst things about college. I hate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican

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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  someone out to one of them. Party with Boston-area college students, get to ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... more. Life is way too short. Look, my four years of college are almost ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... of Stereotype Threat on the Standardized Test Performance of College ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008