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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  , and not fairness. Think about it. When is the last time you heard an admissions officer emphasize how fair the selection process is? Even if fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  research and outreach at a planetarium, like Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could be ... people are doing. Fair enough. I asked for some advice on what to do now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  fair amount of time studying for this midterm--from rewatching lecture ... didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... was fairly happy, at MIT doing stuff I enjoyed. Except, pretty much all ... moved to Oregon and become a fair trade coffee shop barista. And I stop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  present weekend, ceaseless pouring, widespread. Careful, please! Weather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• 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…

  

  success is familiar and widespread, used to describe teenage science fair ... alum who now works for Google on Project Ara (a modular cell phone), (2) met our Design/Build/Fly pilot and ex-captain, who got hired by Google

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... whipping out your phone/laptop in class to “check email” or “google something ... fair scare you. Companies have to pay MIT to be at the career fair

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men ... concrete poured around it, and the article goes to many lengths to assure its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  San Francisco fairly similar to my years in Cambridge except the transit ... reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... determine people’s fates. If you had won an international science fair ... who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  mailbox and coupons pour out onto the floor. All of them have already ... your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot ... their endless hi-jinks. Leo de C. ‘18 You walk out the Munroe door. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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

  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

  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 / 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 / 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