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• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  Star Trek. PhD Comics: a lightly pessimistic web comic about life in academia. xkcd: a nerdy web comic that you've probably already heard of ... that is every bit as entertaining as it is rational. The Guild: a web

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  ten degrees weather. Rain poured and wind blew. The heat in East Campus ... . Weekly free food from ESP meetings, free shirts from career fair, baking

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  maps instead of Google, and drove 100 miles in the wrong direction) and ... . The words just poured out, as they rarely do, in those moments when you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  my email on every Google Form that caught my fancy. The Assassins Guild ... senior. I'm now older, in many ways. I've learned math, sure, and web

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  age, some who I still see on our newer sites, who grew up alongside me ... chatted, I vented, I gamed, I put it all on the web where it still remains ... the year a daily user of DeviantArt, a site that at the time was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  this: create an index by multiplying SAT score and GPA. Rank-order the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... secret gem. While Google will tell you this is the home of the local T

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  The Torch or The Firehose, or the indispensable class planning site ... -industrial complex. —a01 getting a job with Google. You're getting a lot of value from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... mean, i’m learning a lot of web dev stuff, and reading a lot about rnns

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  exactly “fair” means. For example, tournament-style games work by pitting ... something fair; however, if there was no basis of trust, then there's a chance ... of very messy Google Sheets work. Andrew K. ‘22, a later playtester

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a sticky substance which traps and digests insects that fly into it. Webs are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  receives, and i also realized that my gmail storage was filling up rapidly. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  this mailing list? Because (*que suspense music*) … my advisor was a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  the MIT admissions site, and I began reading the blogs. Mollie made a ... site: posting regularly when there are a million other activities and ... the admissions site? and with random people meeting you and saying "wait

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... " threads, sites, applications, voodoo rituals, seances, or anything else. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• 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.

  

  simple: melt down a block of bismuth, and pour out the liquid when it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015