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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... students were black, I was often the only black kid in my class, given that I ... person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  they thought they would major in something, but then realized that ... would be [what major? undecided?]. 2. I will be graduating as [what major ... thought they would major in their major, and diagonal lines represent people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... students taking it in our particular semester. I was put into the Tuesday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  assumed I would be hitting it with a hammer later in the process. However, I ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... is still around 1”. All in all, I’m quite pleased with how the sword

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these ... before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... would highly recommend reading it! 9. How it feels to teach a class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015