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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  perspective for at least 45 seconds. Here it is, if you've missed it: "When ... saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... for "when I have more time" -- sleep, for one, but mostly art. Two

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months ... move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... to share another project I have for the summer; I bought it as a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  Next Saturday, October 20th, is the deadline for Early Action applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... than stellar. Also, this curly hair thing? So not working for me. Anyway ... season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  happened if people arranged to meet after school for a fistfight, like at the ... 's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  through Boston's suburbs blossoming with fall colors and making pit-stops at ... ="119562" image3="119579" /] Finally, we arrived at the site in New Hampshire. Putz ... England's forests for a respite; a cabin in a place like Sunset Pond, a pen

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for ... can bite.  Competitive at a National Level And while the NEWMAC demonstrates success at a regional scale, you might be thinking: Surely there is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is ... it out. Then I got banned from Wikipedia for vandalism. I’m not ... questions for me about what an MIT education should mean, what

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  presidency? I was extremely excited to find out. I showed up at the Welcome Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning ... attendance. My attendance at what, I did not know. At 7 pm yesterday, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the time; I stare despairingly at my ceiling for another 14.82% of the ... opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... school, I spent three summers at a program called CTY. The few weeks I ... studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  be available online Saturday, March 14 at 1:59PM Eastern Time. When ... works for you. Strange things happen to people who don't verify they will

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... lab section on Thursday than I should have. My psets all came out at ... evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  i will start this assignment early —due at 11:59 p ... follow you i wish i knew your name but for now i’ll call you by your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... clearly envision their potential experience at and after MIT   As I ... Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  food will be available for people who want functioning arteries. This ... event at our machine shop. Saturday night we put on our signature CPW

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017