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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is ... dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me

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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on ... have lived in for the last three years, shutting the window because ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  ="107775" image5="107776" /] I made this book, “Conversations for Beginners,” for ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... Morningside Academy for Design']blanket quilting workshop[/annotation], and now

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

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  inputs for length, width, and height. Make a rectangle using your width and ... too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  student group that runs educational programs for middle and high school ... for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days ... , so I dropped it for a while. With a spark of inspiration, I looked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the

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

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

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

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013