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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  make the time commitment to them, as I'm taking (what I consider to be ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• 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 ... more than enough to be overwhelming and make me double-guess whatever I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... ability to check multiple boxes should make it easier to identify one's race ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  make being an engineer cool, that people might want to go to MIT instead ... . Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  take different amounts of time to make art. Some artists finish overnight ... 't, and you always need to have more buffer. Always. Hence why I'm making ... recreate these times, depicting a student asleep in lab, trying to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... of us got to solidify our legacy by writing our names in Sharpies on ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make ... determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  immigrants, but that doesn't make it any less true. Prompted by the intense ... have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more ... tolerance. As I'm coughing just by smelling it in my room TT: Kano's making

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... books being published by small, independent presses to renowned authors ... to others as well, the whole thought was subdued by some cynical other

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new ... ’re already sick, make sure you take adequate time to recover fully so the ... actually relax by not doing this to myself! I am taking a break from setting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• 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 ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... ranked, and by the time he was accepted, he had been to Junior Olympics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• 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.

  

  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 ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a ... also a professional strategy to help me make better decisions. Boring is ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  things: things that make you smile, things that make you want to crawl ... consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the ... . Taking conference calls in transit to events that I was going to make work

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  ..." thinking, and really makes it easier to accept the reality, and look beyond ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... their ascent, to make sure that I didn't stay down.  #peopleoverpsets ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  stake by trying to make ends meet, all the habits I currently do have, and ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018