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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... the hopes of making the top twenty, out of which the Philippine team to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  to verbalize a few reasons that make it so hard. Incomparable ... , incredibly fortunate to receive a fellowship that makes graduate school in ... information to make a well-informed decision. My internships were just a few

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  recreate these times, depicting a student asleep in lab, trying to make ... thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a ... who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply. Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal ... application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... make you happy. Live a little. Heck, live a lot.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this ... , microwave-dependent college student to a burgeoning rival to Gordon Ramsay. My

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... not having to specialize by becoming a science writer 5) the summer ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a

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

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  .20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very ... last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... . “Otherwise I’d go in a heartbeat.” Hang on. I paused. Christopher Nolan makes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... your mistakes. I also had to make a video submission explaining the ... emulate the creative expression of a robot, directly making their actions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often ... interaction, I sometimes take a brisk walk to the drugstore and purposefully

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019