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

  

  , I approached a friend. Ruben P. ’18 had stood up before the panel, and ... —murmured laughingly.   “I am African-American,” he continued, “and growing up I ... America, what it could look like. I grew up envisioning, where else could I

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

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... I could hit up anyway. In the worst case, I could probably sleep in a ... hit up David, and some other people I knew who were studying in MIT, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt ... students who actually end up enrolling. For the class admitted in 1984, [annotation note='Per the 1986 Report, 1059 out of 1854.']57% of them ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  listen to them catch everyone up each week about their grandchildren ... –it’s kind of hard to see, but the carriage is moving up and down to vary the ... drawing are my bread and butter mediums, so I ended up with a good amount of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... . —anonymous climbing up a shaft with fiberglass walls. —anonymous getting a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... deepest insecurities is the idea that I will never catch up, which manifests ... resources and information at a young age, I would have grown up to be a math

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick-up ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... ! What up haters, today we're gonna unleash another furious beast of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... pacing. The class was split up and had enough professors and TAs that every

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... in 1945. Building 20 stayed up until 1998. Why did Building 20 take 55 ... running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... simply just don't happen. Or, they end up wanting to do other things in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... because these shadowrun signs are small and hard to find, they can stay up ... of other students, up against Death Eaters. I didn't come in ready to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... every detail of my life as I grew up. Even now, I remember somewhat ... a phrase that always made me wary growing up, now brings me immense

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... seem to have time to catch up on sleep because, like many other people on ... usually ends up taking up even more time. On the topic of fitness, there

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... . Ayomide F. ‘18 came up in a couple discussions we had because she had worked ... almost looks made up--stereotypical MIT professor surrounded by tons of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  objectively horribly. The third one went much better: I showed up early and ... can be cut up into a discrete number of triangles, and the area of these ... is to cut the polygon up into triangles, cut each triangle up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  like the dumb one who's in over her head."  There were other ups and ... folders alphabetically. Her entire education has been leading up to this ... it gets so caught up in being "awesome" that it forgets about this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . The problem you're coming up against is one I've seen so many of my fellow students encounter. If I could set up a wavy-fade flashback, I ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  blows up to the point that if you skip class, nobody will notice except ... 't. Even if they just stand up there and lecture at you, though, you shouldn ... people who don't work half as hard as you and end up doing twice as well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007