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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  websites I remember frequenting, searching through posts for any glimpse into ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel ... -stitching career! For nearly 2 years  back in 2011 I spent almost every evening and ... with me. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... am not discouraging them from applying for admission, but rather making ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

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

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

  

  grade were searching for schools with great reputations for a specific ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... little bit and he described his college search process: he picked a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ! When I signed off the call I burst into tears for about 20 seconds, not ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  -enough markets, and for the prospect of figuring out how to solve these without ... major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers. For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• 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…

  

  friends at other schools who are still searching for that "passion." "We don ... : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of ... . My reasons for choosing aerospace engineering (Course 16), however, don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  my friends outside of class. I should have searched for a healthier ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... enthusiastic about volunteering. This will be very helpful for our future, when

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the ... college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  emails for more pretty graphs"]Waly![/annotation]  Top X Classes by ... . For the rest, I included the class/classes with the highest frequency ... for the Actor (1) 2021 6.115: Microcomputer Project Laboratory (2

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020