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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much ... Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... , a kindred spirit admissions officer/blogger at the Johns Hopkins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  and full-length comic book narratives across a variety of genres, while analyzing a wide range of comics (corporate and independent, print and web ... : Framing of major news events has a non-significant influence on viewers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  aspirations has been the internet. Growing up a fan of the web was not something ... I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... -complete search feature easily transforms Google from a resource-filled virtual ... from the womb of Google search statistics. What follows may be read as a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... , and then they brought out dessert. And it was gorgeous. A beautiful, sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  wouldn’t really count this as a conversation, but it certainly is small ... education, to which there are a few common responses: 1) Not following up ... small talk mode. We don’t have to have a deep conversation about math, but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  for reporting results, a special web site to facilitate communication ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  person with a gun on campus, further info on the Emergency Web Page ... 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt, clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few hundred million dollars per quarter). valuation is a subjective number

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  Senate Web site used to have a photo of him posing in front of a Superman ... him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... spending quite a bit of time together assembling applications and preparing

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things ... the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  four times a week - Accomplished! I actually started becoming way more ... things. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA - Accomplished! So this is kind of more ... Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  our .wasm file as a static asset, without any extra work! WebAssembly is ... This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center ... Science, the discussion runs a bit more, well, technical. You may learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A ... with a faint, delayed crackle. Most nights, this summit was shrouded in ... ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016