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  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a ... to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the ... your desk in the Reading Room to see a row of empty coffee cups and Red ... half as a favor to the affiliated women I was friends with and half as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  in a world where the same rules apply to them. This is the same country ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Lifecycle of the trifid Fantastic Beasts and where to find them Guide to ... before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when ... , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  graduated. I had a weird last semester where I was trying to find myself and ... allowed? One time, in my sophomore year, there was a blogger meeting where I ... some degree I wanted to give a heartfelt and very full thank you. My

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  someone with a polaroid camera. They called out, offering to take a free ... first day after spring break, and we returned to campus to find those ... , turned out to be a [annotation note="imagine sight reading it on the piano

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  about as much work, but it would be harder to do in a culture where that ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  taken a circuitous path to MIT, I thought I might reach out and share my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... /ENGN department to become a Goldwater Scholar, but I also got to meet and befriend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... things you'd find in your typical day to day household. Over the summer ... have turned to simply ordering things and as a result... Originally we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... me, trying to find lunch.) Oil painters displayed their works along the ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... 't weigh anything?" and want to see more from Wilczek, you can find 3

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  even though the period where my relationships were going to shit sucked ... -care constitutes: watching nostalgic shows/movies — a sequel to my favorite ... more than a month to get through them since i'm so busy with academics

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... school to college transition less stressful and frenzied. If you are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  ’ve recently submitted a formal application and a constitution to be recognized ... become a connoisseur of Campbell’s canned soups. On a good day, I can find ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  mother, so they abandon him, enabling a future where he doesn’t recognize ... a scenario, all the dogs quickly learned to jump over the hoop ... classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class ... of ourselves for finding you. Second, it was a celebration of simply ... was fantastic. I used to think of the arrival of Spring simply as a

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... ways than one. *** Cut to a very different dining experience. Tonight

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025