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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  like I’m watching a glitch in the matrix. The fact that my identity is ... how I identify myself as Filipino. Sure, this is truly a label that ... each other in Arabic. And what do I have? All of a sudden, I feel like I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... hard as I know it is, try not to obsess over your pending decision. Do ... that is every bit as entertaining as it is rational. The Guild: a web

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  past or in stormy weather. I hate this bridge, I really do. It’s a ... confusing"]Boston[/annotation] is a relatively small city, I have spent a lot ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  he moved in, in 2004. “I remember having a Californian friend that was ... is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who ... extremely nice room and i’m very glad that i live in it. Not only could I name

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But ... table than a slate of straight As in math and science and a big SAT I Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... a little awkward too, but one thing I’ve learned is that we should not ... letting that awkwardness be a barrier. Which is why I wanted to write this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... my thesis. I kept doing that, a few hours at a time, every day that I ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... material is "not useful". Notice that I talked about a frosh dichotomy. This ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... research. That dot product is pretty high compared to other things I could do ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... 'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... a pastor in a room for an hour. Although I don't believe that demons

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... there, after landing, I stayed in Bologna a few days. The second weekend I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... -shirts, and that’s only counting the ones that I wear on a semi-frequent basis

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I ... news is, like I said before, all this destruction is a good thing. Or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  start. But however scary that may sound, this is not a post about how ... consumption over a month: they found that a net positive increase in movies per ... . “Otherwise I’d go in a heartbeat.” Hang on. I paused. Christopher Nolan makes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... than I have encountered at MIT. Basically what I want to say is that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011