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

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... ’s words from the night before: “There are 12 million undocumented people in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  't even write about everything that happened in excruciating yet charming detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  don’t build the torment nexus and other such cliche advice for frosh

  

  in 2022, and now there are class of 30’s. By the time they graduate I ... that this is mostly train of thought, so these tips are in no particular ... "] american bullfrogs are the largest species of frog in north america and will

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept ... kept repeating it to myself in the hopes that if I said it enough times ... . To begin the week of rush, IFC hosts the annual Kresge Kickoff in which

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

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  both as a creative outlet for students interested in the culinary arts as ... likely as simple as noodles slathered in chili flakes and green onions, a ... . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  post-blizzard pics except idk how to use photoshop

  

  In California, I never got to experience having a "snow day" (we did ... "] these poor souls, i left my bike out in the snow once and then my chain ... gloves in my room, so I headed back to [annotation note="one of MIT's dorms

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  station chic) lost my family's luggage. We ended up spending hours in the ... had few material belongings, but I was rich in life. Spain and Portugal ... meetups with Mathcampers in town for hunt. Then I locked in on web.lab again

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  (Floorpi) in East Campus! With East Campus having been closed for two years of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... opportunity to live here prior. Floorpi is unique in that it is the only floor

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  and Gloria has done some filling in, including the amphitheater steps in the bottom right. We're planning to add in a few more buildings and then cover the ground in marshmallow fluff as if Stata has been blanketed by

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  pennies in the month of December. Piles of them. Every single year. But as cliché as that line becomes in the last few weeks of the last month, I’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... thought it best to process those in private, in the pages of my paper journal. Being in the public is a vulnerable act. My situations made me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where ... enjoy being a "Greek chorus" in relativity with Feli, aggressive nodding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... ;   Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience ... .   castle “so anyway, we’re staying in a castle—” wild cheering

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  recommend that you try logging in now to make sure it goes smoothly! If you ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... you. In the meantime, you can watch [annotation note="which will take

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024