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• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  great ambition that you are driven to accomplish... At best you will grasp ... laughing at the absurdity of characters like tracey. adulthood is realizing ... am not very excited when i look at companies like stripe which are used

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  application as well. At MIT, our alumni conduct the interviews, and alumni who ... talk to someone who has gone to school at MIT.    Past blogs about ... their time at MIT; I know many of them are more than happy to talk to you

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  ticketing system was a mess: Olivia wasn't performing at a large arena, but ... tickets at face value, but then she fell sick several days beforehand and ... time at the beginning of the semester is less precious than the time in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  their student experience. Seeing how past students at the Institute ... [/annotation] captures student life in the late 60s, a time at when the student body was becoming more diverse and the Vietnam War protests were at their peak. It had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  before swimming away. Later, I saw the bigger fish looking at the surface ... happened at the Outfinite, at eleven in the evening. Modern style I was ... -maintained ramp. At the bottom of the ramp, I put some items into the car, and then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  that when my friend looks at my life they conclude that i can do anything, yet when i look at my life i genuinely feel like i’m able to do nothing ... the one path i know to avoid at all costs   iv. recently i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  them off to a shop and break the locks at their leisure. However, this ... bouncing around and full-body head-banging I was doing at the festival, I was ... prices surprised me at first — in Tucson you can find sturdy bikes for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a ... sitting at my desk staring into space and experiencing Thoughts™. the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... duality of IHTFP, which at once means I Hate This Fucking Place and I Have Truly Found Paradise. At once, MIT is a place that is hated and loved, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  department, isn't about cs at all. it's about presentation skills. the first ... that i was bad at taking videos of myself with my phone. 10:55. 6.UAT ... ten cm of snow for around ten meters. at least it's pretty outside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... at unusual latitudes to the rest of admissions office. I've also made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at ... Submit section at the end of each portfolio in SlideRoom. To request a fee ... the words of a wise colleague, “Don't throw spaghetti at the wall and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my ... talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... at recruitment didn't even bother giving us a chance, just flat out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... things, it's just hard to enjoy them all at once. two here's an example ... i put upon myself the task of writing a website i liked. at first i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . When I took a gap year before coming to MIT, my friends at home would ... image1="64800" image2="64803" /] It feels so weird looking at these ... bleached hair looks good, or whatnot, it doesn't feel like it. When I look at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  forgiving rather than penalizing. No lives, no restarting at the beginning of ... found too hard. Celeste allows you to play at a pace that's good for you ... 'm good at keeping up appearances, but the truth is I'm barely holding it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me ... stuff ends up falling out if there isn't enough space at the top to make a ... 'll need to get steel wool at some point. It's a fun little game I play

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... always talk about drinking from the firehose at MIT, but I don’t feel like ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... any indication that this was happening while I was at CPW. When I got

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here ... .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just ... server, a hotloader, and my browser, at the same time. This isn’t supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020