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

  

  people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... decisions in a vacuum. Decision-making and identities are highly situational

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... soloed a lot. In class, in concerts at school, in public squares in Malta

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  department is not going to admit a student who, in their opinion, cannot ... ! It only applies to people who live in dining halls, though, and it's a ... a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in ...   stuffed my face at boston restaurant week... two nights in a row ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the truth, in a Zeno's Paradox sort of way. Part of the MIT culture is ... , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that ... This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I know, as well as a poignant and accomplished blogger. Enjoy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... display is centering an award that has historically had a massive diversity ... only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  . There is a fish tank in my sister's bedroom that is a constant source of gurgling sounds, and a rabbit in a cage that is a constant source of rustling sounds. One of the dogs, who is a visitor, keeps pushing the door open to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... the smartest person in the room is, or the zoom chat or whatever, I tell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021