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

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... dope from time to time. If you are a black student coming to MIT, I just

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  with two of the most supportive parents a girl can ask for, and I ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... puzzlehunt community, and what expectations I have for others, using a gift ... step out of the Hunt for a few hours. And it felt so bad that I put in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done ... there’s no way a few people can do it alone.“   “I’m here because I

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... always been a family affair for me, and I longed to eat with other people ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... every week where i was “forced” to dedicate the time to drawing, a hobby

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  them. Trust me, I've been there. But luckily for you, I've spent years ... of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my ... a can of your chosen legume, P1, and microwave for 3 minutes in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are. I did everything from: Buying lunch for the talent and crew ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  . I live a 5 minute walk from Newbury, one of the most iconic streets in Boston. I can see – and hear – Fenway Park from my window. Cafe 472, an MIT ... with how this decision of joining a sorority has turned out for me. I am

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend ... loss. And so I sat on my bed and cried. I cried for a while, and my mom ... thrive there.  I also needed a place I could afford. I took the SAT for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... 't done was add a few extra screws that I suspected it would need for ... . I picked what we were going to make: a replacement for a makeshift

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while ... , but MG and I are somehow also at the far right? it's the sheer amount of ... ), so this checks out. MG and I at the top again! let's go musical

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... the anger and loneliness and sadness, to get to a place where I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  doesn't bother me This happened to me this year. I studied days for a test ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there ... if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  leading me down a place where I can never recover from? It’s extreme to ... weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running ... , listening to every sound I can to take my mind away from class. My hands, when

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

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

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... forms a stable foundation for future classes. I think the effects of a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016