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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  sinking a little bit with each stroke you make, you'll have to work that ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... make up a vertical mile, so I ascended... one fifth of a mile? It felt a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... simply spun it off as a "Oh, we're this company and we make mistakes but

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... from what we call MIT north, which is a little off from actual north, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As ... adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live with. Having a really awesome living group can make all the difference ... and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  rewarding. We'd know we are contributing to making a beautiful and useful ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever school I applied to so the rejection didn't make sense. "I want to know why ... probably tell that I am not a writing major, but it makes me feel powerful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . Balance = well-being. Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to ... month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006