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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... , and Fridays are a lot less crazy. This is by design -- I like smushing a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... semester, I am ultimately unburnt. Just lightly toasted with a warm golden ... were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... about, starting with the depression. (Angelina G. recently wrote a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

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

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... , a backstory— CJ: So some way or another I read about Kevin L. ‘19, who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... —after spiraling into a drug addiction and isolating himself, Taron Egerton as Elton

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... their waxy exterior a different emotion: boredom, support, nervousness

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  helpful. Here goes...       Your friends will change a ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling ... living through a pandemic. And we were being forced off campus. With ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020