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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  before. DACA has been expanded and the age cutoff for applying has been ... that struck the core of the conversation. “My name is Austin Thompson ... to escape to is where I live and where I’m experiencing the unbelonging

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  physics. Only the material is harder now.  I want to like physics for ... week for her, not the mountain that it is for me. it’s not about ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... for CPW last year) is a photographer for The Tech and was forced to hang ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but ... one on sale at the Container Store (BEST STORE EVER) that folds up, so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  for President, although that is sometimes the case for some people ... ; often, the indeterminacy is more fundamental than that. Such was the case with ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the ... . --------------------------------------------------------------- wow, looks like we killed the MIT node...akamai is shuffling the ... ) ---------------------------------------------------------------   For a short amount of time the website was back up with a "fix

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  eventually accept myself. And all I can ever hope for is that the content I ... in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real

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

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  remember. [annotation note="perhaps this is for the better"][/annotation] i ... well as a class exclusively for freshmen in iap. the class is incredibly ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... hollow is the knowledge that, some day, mom and dad will stop dancing in

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021