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

  

  ? card? whatever you call it, it was sturdy and well-designed The next day ... said. “You never know what’s gonna happen.” He told me his story, or ... deported any day. I still live in fear that when my DACA expires… what

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

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

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... . Sidequest 7: Beat Imposter’s Syndrome. While I definitely don’t think I ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research. Do you have prior experience that you want to build upon, or put to use

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... been to the IMO or at least the USAMO or have won some science competition or another (Westinghouse, YES, Intel, take your pick) or have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  ’m quite dizzy with anticipation . . . Or is it the wind? There really is a ... a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with ... Factory” (or an actual alien). Specimen 3A29: Finally we return

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest ... -full roach, missing a few chunks of leg from the cat.[/caption] Setup 1 table ... top of that to absorb liquid Without a proper scalpel or other proper

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  my job, I was terrified. Every day I waited for someone to figure out ... ” feature. One day the CEO casually asked me to estimate our market potential ... saying: I’ve made it. Well, more or less. Questions? Comments? Adoring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... or so until early action decisions come out, how is your anxiety level ... , and it read "115," which confused me since it was already 3:30pm, and 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all ... peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... . My goal is not to scare or put down or invalidate anyone who has

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  MEng) Google - YouTube and TV ads projects Medical doctor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for ... test scores, or research experience, or being a National AP Scholar, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into space with their own homemade rocket (from their own homemade submarine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , he decided that Mac and Cheese wouldn't help him complete his p-sets or ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... linkage based so that hobbyists can easily build them (or something). (Click ... and the radiator may or may not be falling through the floor. Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  as being totally smooth at all times), or if my professor had instead ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... Requirement (GIR) class, and one hour of recitation, taught by grad students or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  other planets or moons, or helping a lander safely rendezvous with an orbiter after taking samples from a planet or asteroid. Right now, I feel ... but adrift and blindly follows a well-trodden path into consulting, or

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004