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

  

  ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... Black Engineers is a great place to find internships and make connections

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

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... the office, to writing or reviewing a game. In Tech Squares, work can be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  think you’re supposed to. A PhD, in particular, does not always lead to a career in academia, a higher salary, an ability to better help people, a ... actually merge the two in a thesis if I wanted to. My grandpa passed away a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  weeks. Maybe in 15 more years, a blogger will find our Pie Day video ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... [/annotation] in a variety of different ways. Some of these ideas will be useful ways ... [annotation note='CourseRoad is a tool MIT students use to plan their classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• 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 ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

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

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... graduation requirements or trying to find a major that clicks. But you will ... scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we ... came to a few (scary) realizations: I wasn't interested in anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  you as a person are smart enough or useful enough--and now i find that i'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  display I'd use to play dance videos whenever I needed a break. Pros ... serve as perfect mirrors when it gets dark. dancers used to use this as a ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... my parents' house in Canada. In September, I moved back to Boston to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... notebooks that I used in high school to learn French and Korean, the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... with style. A lot of us tend to think about things in ways that are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  I've been used to. And even this seesaw, when I'm in the right ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... Equations. Uses a lot of beautifully crafted visuals in each video to make it ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025