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

  

  through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... undocumented people living in the United States, many more are safe now than were

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• 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 ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a ... women in math: research at Indiana University found that females

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... building codes also state that if MIT spends more than some amount of money

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  section. I didn't have much hope for my cause, as it was explicitly stated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  stated that they'd be much happier after receiving such a pay increase

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• 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 entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in whatever state you’re in, realize that whatever has been making your ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the ... my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  'd been down this road many times before. Drifting into a state of half ... rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching ... quiz, and they offered to ship shark plushies to the people who scored ... the couch, in that sort of state after you've cried for a while but can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  is a self-governing country and not America's 51st state (despite what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005