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  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... this will spark a conversation in your circle that will lead to some ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  and adhere to? And in this set of options, when a community has to be ... want it to be. The community's physical space also plays a role in how ... different vibes that tend to say a lot about the floor. In dorms like New

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall ... cake at Downtown Crossing, before driving back to campus in time for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... hottest fucking mess in existence right now. I've spent a lot of time ... some god punishing me for being a bad person. Anyway, in these past 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  understand. Often, we see students go back to a teacher from earlier in ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  their diaries to find out about their day-to-day lives. He talked about a ... In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  did in the fall.  i went back to read a journal entry i wrote back in ... experiences find a space in memories without erasing or undermining previous ... , everything seems to be better in [annotation note="A line from the book 'It

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit ... soils, it’s nice to learn just for the sake of learning, in a class ... genuinely interested in the subject that it’s hard not to get a bit interested

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing ... was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... in a swimming pool full of strawberry soda, and will ride in it with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  personal projects, hackathons, and the like, but it’s good to finally take a ... , like a little cherry on top to the week. Every week, we read a new novel ... , I’ve cross-registered at Harvard! I wanted to hone in on my writing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... about half of them) on a slow day, I find myself puzzling the many ... . See, reading is a huge part of my life. My mom used to beg me to put the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... began an adventure to find the highest spot on campus which was both ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  doesn't either. Right now, you might be waiting to find out if you got ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... safely do so. [annotation note="me? oh, I'm still w a i t i n g to launch

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  GIRs in order to graduate: a biology, a chemistry, two calculus, and two ... to pursue a career in that instead? It would have been better, then, if ... ’m making a difference in other people’s lives, right? Now that I stop to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... about 3 million different things that spray water around in a myriad of different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  , the frats seemed to send out a few guys into the foray of frosh to find ... , and set it up in a parking lot with some cinder blocks by the tires to ... in a frat; I wanted, regardless of who I was or wasn’t, to be true to

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012