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

  

  an area with a very large black population. However, for some ... growing it out and find someone to do your line). If you are looking for ... their mindset. And for a lot of Asian, Hispanic, and White prospective

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

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

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... , at least you can rest for a bit, recharge, and lift that weight when ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  us know your favorite locales for a good semi-public cry. And post ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  drop date. I came into MIT with a lot of hopes and ideas of what I was ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will support ... this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a ... Taco Bell Eating contest, and a Frosting Eating contest, but I'd learned

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  , but the work still got done and I walked away with a sense of ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  you are looking for a quick synopsis. Rankings can provide a comparative ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... have had several conversations in the last few weeks with students and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Stellar, each class has a page with things like assignment files and grades ... , share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... (with the guy who is now my son's godfather) at least once a month ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... for the RA round, I’d like to share a bit about my mindset and what I ... , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of ... listings and making a hypothetical schedule for yourself on WebSIS. 6 ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  players and be done with it? For a football team, why not choose all the ... fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define ... special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  slowly, and yet you look back and all of a sudden it’s been two weeks, and ... has been taken out and replaced with routine. Makulay But for now, MIT ... something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... many different ponds and hope something sticks, whether it’s a graduate school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020