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• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  i knew before i arrived on campus was one composed through admissions ... actual humans based on their perceived intelligence usually by strawmaning ... emphasis on intelligence over kindness in general. i'm not sure way too much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  to write an essay on the most significant challenge on that essay being ... ourselves.  Those two weeks in the Philippines changed my outlook on Filipino ... on Filipino lifestyle and culture forever.  The students in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  wallet that much, I’ve decided to monetize my hours spent gushing on all my ... York, and yes it was my fault but I’m still going to hate on the food I ... made me sad. the ramen was flavourful if not on the saltier side, and the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... it on a shelf, I would If I could explain myself, I would Let me ... others, they lay with me. What matters to me, then? I was stuck on this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  clubs or doing extracurriculars. It wouldn’t be the same as on campus, so ... note="on average 7 hours a day? could be better but not bad ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  what I spend on has helped me get more value from the things I have ... me spend on the things that are actually important to me.  --- Knowing ... something to use it on." My internet history was full of amazon doodads, my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... ’t find the time. I’ve been working on a new project, and I’m writing a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  $5 lasers and mirrors you can find on Amazon, we use the “Quantenkoffer ... hard on your equipment) can throw off the entire system. (Ironically ... " (circuits that store quantum information), operations on one qubit affect all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport ... to raise their newborn daughter. On hiatus. I haven't read a lot of ... us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  time paused when we all left campus— —because yes, i too left campus on ... and singing on i feel this version of the fear of missing out. like, we ... , come on) So this is it? I sold my soul for this? Washed my hands of that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  move last minute on Labor Day. Classes started out fast, but I managed ... acids in 7.012, and adjective endings in German. Staying on top of classes ... catch up on my classes and pset (I even got some help from some of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  roof party on top of Baker. The party wasn't all that great, but the view ... came together due to surface tension when placed on water. I wanted to ... : Sailing on the Charles: Boston Citgo sign: Runners along the river

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  commitment to this school? This isn't to say I'm the 10000%-always-on-the-grind ... [annotation note="As much as one can, considering my life is also on campus and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  people, and I want to improve! So, on the first weekend after classes ... styles. Speaking of tap, the next item on my agenda was an miTAP audition ... chose (part of Killer Instinct from Bring It On) 5/5 Stars, would

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  neither of us knew what it was. When Ariel the mermaid showed up on his ... who's well-known in their field came up on stage, Joey leaned over and ... Institute" on his badge ("Like from Contact!") and asked him about what it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  many people took this flight, and nearly everyone on the plane got an ... just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... other little things around the house. It felt nice to be depended on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... . Walking through soft ice is quite different from walking on normal ground ... 'm not on a Big Rock -- seem less deep. Sometimes it really isn't that deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  it on the guitar. To quote a Redditor explaining their dislike for ... such. Like Pluto, it is socially acceptable to dunk on djent. After all ... usually played on guitars with a sacriledjeous number of strings. I think it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... am supposed to define myself now?" On the other side of the phone, my ... doing in college today. I used to picture myself only focusing on science

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes ... !"]matrix multiplication does (usually) depend on the order of multiplication ... going on here! But where do you turn to when linear algebra fails you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023