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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... hardest decision I've had to make is to give up on a project. When I applied

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  seemed like a natural step to us since, for one, it doesn't make sense for ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCK0LPTufYE[/embed] Making this was a lot of fun! It was super cool to ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large supplementary figure section to make sure your reader has a thoroughly ... solution! Make sure to spend a lot of time on font, text size, color palette

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  ’ve since been informed that that’s a misguided conclusion to make, and I like ... ’m good at, I would be a very happy person if I were able to make that kind ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  stress. I like to blame MIT for making me a masochist, but the reality of ... live close to one another! And I get to make helicopters for a living. We ... and features into our cars. I would advise freshmen to make a solid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... idea was to make a machine that could replicate and draw calligraphic ... in May. I love a good poster, but it’s cool to make graphics for more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... unwieldly. Microphone - This clips onto (1) and makes me look like a tech

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011