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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  lot of experience, and if you have good, quick feedback on mistakes ... In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  had to have plans to do something, to explore some new part of the city ... on the 'reading is very important' train."]with the explicit goal of ... the fear of trying new things or of mild disappointment; you have to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January ... colder than Boston, I'd never gotten to stand on a frozen body of water ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  new Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, the largest, most advanced U
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  fulfilled a pre-thesis requirement). On the first day of class, my classmates ... 't. I’ve mainly worked on the first of these so far, and already learned ... , on the history of early international students at MIT, with a professor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  night, after seeing the new banner for the Class of 2011 Facebook group, I ... matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  of your comfort zone, whether it is trying a new activity, or ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  Western Massachusetts, along with wide swaths of Vermont, New Hampshire, New ... , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  card out of the organizer on his desk, flipped it over and grabbed a pen. As he signed his name on the back of the card, he explained to me that ... it on eBay and make a million dollars!" One of those lines was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  conspiracy of nerds who write about MIT on the Internet and learn the secret ... -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  , working faster: psets, labs, and readings each week new. The art of being ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real ... . And of course, you know I'm with you. In this new digital world order we ... you and I are on opposite sides of this, because I'm a natural homebody

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  one of the things that was going on today relates to something MIT ... mailing. And of course a full update on Friday about the progress of the ... question?" The rest of his talk focused on the quest to understand these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  comfiest (sp?) chairs on campus are in my very own place of employment. The ... the heck out of the way, and is the furthest place on campus from Burton ... one of their librarians the Friday before the Tuesday on which my 30

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... executive on two of the entertainment industry's grandest institutions, "The ... ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  weather machine, and invigorated with the excitement of a new batch of nerds ... Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  of this photo I recently saw on a blog: richietown via Bostonist ... A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending ... talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there ... undergraduates of any class year. This application will go live on 07/01/2022, and ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  uncomfortable as you reevaluate your perspectives on a plethora of social issues ... be-all and end-all of things! Askhole is my new favorite quarantine ... boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  easier to notice the little bursts of green appearing on the blank canvas ... scores of new people met and new friends made, I’ve learned how to make ... put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024