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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... someone’s mind. On a different note, MIT will expose you to a variety of ... , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  build working websites :D And so we moved on to the real thing™. game ... , while others had stars on them. A fully cooperative team would try to ... we tried to incentivize distrust a bit more. Based on a suggestion from

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  Weekend was like. On Thursday evening, there was a panel for prefrosh to ask ... to be hosted, and 80% wanted to live in a dormitory. On the other hand ... "]the faculty[/annotation] made a motion to require first-years to live on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

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

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... finished working on the McCormick article. In the interest of saving myself a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks ... : Off to Steam Cafe (to which people submit their own recipes), on the ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  're doing a puzzlehunt," which is a strong enough narrative to stand on its ... much logistics. If you can put the thing on a website, [annotation note ... stream a game on Twitch, compared to watching a video posted on You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  a foothold on why they wanted to Do The Thing beyond these reasons ... very quickly—it’s what enables a lot of innovation to happen, but as a ... tests), so just learn how to solve them the quick way. Do a few practice

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas ... ignition of the fuel vapors."]on fire,[/annotation] leading to a shortage of ... and to quickly dump their knowledge on how the club/performances should

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on about, say, a sandwich I ate at the student center, or a new haircut ... to Europe, went on a hike, cleared my head, and took a job at Siluria ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... process of leading a project from start to finish, watching it on launch day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020