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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  .   the question— what is it about you that’s so impermanent ... if forever is something you can even conceptualize.   ...   ... international travel is complicated with the pandemic, and so you feel like a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... on everything. As the election nears, it is important to acknowledge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... lies This is the dawning of the rest of our lives On holiday [annotation ... competition math, and realized that being proficient at something is different

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... more about here, one of my weekly assignments is to prepare news briefs ... now i’m just preoccupied with my life here—which is fair, because i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It ... in South Africa is really defined by the conversations that I had. And ... amount of things I want to talk about is so numerous that it would easily

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... later. This fort--now a park filled with fluffy dogs--is the last ... Revolutionary War. This is why I love Boston--it's so full of history that you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... the gas station is the cutest U-Haul ever made. "We could have used one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial ... miles of open road. This event, however is preceded by a track ... . There is no better way to learn engineering than a better engineer tearing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in ... to make technology “think.” MIT is an excellent place to do this, as it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  grinning. I think it’s safe to say that orientation at MIT is not something ... implicit confidence is placed in the students at MIT. This school is set up ... learned that freshman year is the only year that there’s a cap on how many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior ... this minor, the first response I usually get is, “MIT has humanities classes? Aren’t you guys a technical school?” The answer to this is a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and ... constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... ’s studying quantum mechanics. One good success story is Edward Snowden

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the “best move” depends on what cards your opponent is holding. Playing poker

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to ... : I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... and distant future presents. Her energy is unfamiliar (if I got only ... measurable ways, life is largely the same, just with 10pm-6am work inexplicably

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... Design. The concept of 2.00b, or Toy Product Design, is fairly simple ... peer pressure (far more effective is to have people work alone and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... distance of this place from anything I'm used to is bitingly obvious. I took

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  , "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" (Randy Pausch ... declared Course 2! Woot! But enough about school... after all it is summer ... your typical mechanical engineering lab, but the research is neat! Aside

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012