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  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  awareness that would scarcely have been thought of a generation ago." And, in ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  skills would be buzzing in our heads, like on a daily. MIT is so special ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in ... of specialized machines to choose from, and I like working out in an ... when I work out in more secluded environments (like the Maseeh gym), it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... ="87077" /] note that I'm limited in my ability to document other study spots in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... tethers [annotation note="or us, because I am in a distinct kind of liminal

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  really packed and then yesterday I literally just did homework in bed for hours and hours. That's how it goes, sometimes. I still have a couple ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• 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

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011