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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... undocumented people, immigrants, black people, brown people. Literally, you can ... make good money, and get a good job which means you make more money. But

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... most recent trip to Daily Table. You can also follow their much prettier ... are, cannot match. City living can have its own specific challenges

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  about comparing yourself to others, you can start to actually thrive ... the destination." Learn to love the journey more than where you're going ... 've taken so many L's. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  one is comfort. It's a feeling that you get when you believe things will ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  least one mistake in all of these maps, see if you can find it ... stops back into town, where we witness someone yell ‘Back door’ to get the ... can get on the Blue Line. We take the train out towards Wonderland, a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  of rant. If you are wondering what my point is, it can be best summed ... application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition ... suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ="water-ballooned, anyone?"]any other painful form of water you can think of ... /learning programs where students can teach students or gain internships that are not ... can be found here.   Blogger You know this one (it's this)!! We

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  from when I've last seen her. "Talk to your grandma as much as you can while you're here, okay?" I can read between lines to understand what my ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... your say, your body will silence 1 alarm, or 5 alarms. 10 if you really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something you get used to."]building 37[/annotation], as well as the locations ... , where undergrads help grad students with research or get supervised by ... where my mom had me wash my hair in vinegar to get rid of lice. to me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  heart race.) If you know what you are doing, you can almost always get ... more incredible in person than you can imagine. Ditto for the fire truck ... , where I now work) because they're certain they can't afford it. Given how

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of the hanging beds had railings. As you can see in the photo below ... I don't have a video of the pianola at tEp but you can watch a nearly ... -flavored ice cream (you can see it in the previous photo). (If you're not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... going to get. "What? No. No, you need to keep the computer science. What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually. Also, I highly doubt that you can properly collude with everyone. So yeah ... this, you have to try and predict exactly where people will choose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... you” reaction and 10 being the ideal “where’s my pflag shirt” reaction ... queer. It’s just that, when you have the privilege of getting to spend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ! See? You get it. Now, figure out four squared. You can use the coins ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a ... and nodded and gave me a thumbs up and said, “You’re getting it! You’re getting it! You just need a little practice in the water, and you’ll be more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... ? Dumbledore: -say that you're interested in astrophysics, and ask if you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013