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  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  office and as an Institute. We believe an MIT education is about learning ... Institute affairs, make policy recommendations to serve social goals, and, yes ... from Stoneman Douglas have spoken out loudly, often, and in public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  becoming.[/annotation] And after bloggers receive their diplomas alongside ... given institution, they are facilitated by those channels and ... come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In

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

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

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

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

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... you start letting sweat bead upon your brow and frantically asking ... electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university’s ... Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... ) at MIT to show solidarity and support for the University of Missouri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... worst experiences of my time in the States, and complicated my sense of ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school ... younger students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West

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

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  . In MIT’s early decades, the fledgling Institute lacked both space and ... students of the Institute than that of closer contact with each other and ... passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... students who came to the Institute despite historical and geographical ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... ten degrees weather. Rain poured and wind blew. The heat in East Campus ... persisted for so long, and so universally. As if our bodies themselves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed ... in governance at MIT. There are dozens of institute and faculty ... ) Creating, revising, or removing undergraduate subjects and degree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  's castle. And not just a tour through a stately gothic castle, but a long and ... degrees and your bare feet are sizzling on the pavement and you're sprinting ... emerging on the other side with friends and a degree. —fray getting a nice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020