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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... ’s the only dish that every adult in my immediate family has cooked for me ... , along with the people around me, loved sharing this dish together for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... experiments, and make sure the paper is completed for submission. To uphold the ... publicly talking about the contents of the paper for a while. It’s kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let the chance experiences and adventures serve as a guide for what’s next ... consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin ... , Jin Zhang, for her help correcting the Chinese language version of this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... people say, "the new site looks good", and say "thanks so much for adding ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture ... ’t completely true; some students only had two of the three. But, for some ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a ... for fifteen minutes. I woke up fifteen minutes later. I turned off the ... Wednesdays ago nothing happened. The next day I went out for ramen with some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... the subject, her passion for climate and her belief that climate change ... , especially because she was looking for ways that MIT’s deep knowledge could

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... , and just extracted the parts I needed for the psets ("selective

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... ’ve taken before. The workload for all of my classes has been reduced by a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career ... , Committee on Scholarships recommended him “for the favorable consideration of ... recommendations.” The Faculty did not “regard him as a candidate for graduation the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  looking for an edge in the admissions process, and the authentic applicants ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... , and the regressive doubts that hold me back -- making for zero net ... the line. Sometimes it means getting ready for the next push, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  before. DACA has been expanded and the age cutoff for applying has been ... Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown, before the announcement that ... the world record for deportations in this country—over 2 million, just

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... running for the IMO team. For tenth grade, and eleventh grade, and twelfth

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... ends justify the means'"]end:[/annotation]something sought out for itself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  authority figure who I had very little respect for in the first place was ... for the same competition. And I'm lucky we did pretty well in that ... , and maybe even more across the nation, yelling at me for my apathy, “You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014