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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . collectively remove grey hairs (disclaimer: I actually didn’t believe the math that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying, but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened, dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self-actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visualize things, or who have aphantasia. I didn't realize I had aphantasia ... aphantasia became a popular concept. I'd just always assumed that when people ... could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... wasn't THAT long ago....was it? So imagine my surprise when I convince

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth REX, and this time, I am on assignment with MIT Technology Review. Together with photographer PJ I’m covering Residence EXploration, a multiple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... thought to speak. I checked my phone. 2 minutes left. Not yet. I was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  bad – "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," The Narcissist Cookbook I know I usually ... left me more keenly aware of situations where I may feel trapped and have ... rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022