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

  

  from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private ... students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  wanted to talk about was finding a community where I was surrounded by ... . Now back to finding out that I would be a blogger. The realization hit ... while I was a student I never got to the point with my family where I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... ’m taking, and where I live. When I introduce myself to people, it’s only ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  be a "tool" is just a way to avoid trying to find out who you are as a ... often find themselves with six to seven classes a semester, get straight ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  followed a sign that said “B——— Ranch,” which led me to a homestead where ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... . I took a bus to Rome, where I would stay for a few days, and then on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was ... towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  adolescence. At a time where my peers were beginning to learn how to navigate ... ="That summer, I went to a week-long leadership program at Harvard, where I ... it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class."]finding

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  7pm.  Figure out how to find a doctor when your ear gets ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• 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 ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  the way to Terminal A, where we got off to transfer to another bus. A ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  find your favorite UROP too, but it is also ok to defer to a convenient ... advantages of going to a diverse place like MIT is that you will find plenty of ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008