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• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  book. “If the cube problem looks like this, here is the next step.” Man ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... —visually simple yet mentally rigorous. There’s immediate satisfaction. The goal is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  imagine how excited the Class of '26 is when their last two years of high ... the hazy memories of my CPW to guide me. this is totally credible and ... . anyways, you have a dope website to help you plan your CPW, so there's no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the ... as many as I can before I post. Another part of that rightness is the ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  fanart and other original art on my Tumblr page. However, as is the story ... there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... certificates, synching my iCloud, logging into various websites so I wouldn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... absolutely incredible! JPL is a research and development center as well as a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time ... . Like Tao, Gowers is also a great writer, and I also gained a great deal

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... someone has a problem, we can't stop ourselves from helping. There is no ... . There are all sorts of student life here, and everybody is free to pursue

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to ... main thing I want to get out of this course is concrete project

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  the atmosphere of 18.032 was just different. 18.03 is in 10-250, one of ... magazine, and is now pursuing a physics PhD, or Steven, who got a creative writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read ... books. But while the school year is going on, I guess they'll still be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... families preside over moving cars. Over the plains, the sky is visible in all ... effortlessly. Maybe the answer is in setting the stage early. Here’s what I did

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty ... ) and 18.01 (Calculus), it's not too difficult to prove that the answer is ... tells Northern Californians she goes to MIT, their first comment is always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try ... this year). Stu's blog posting is closed for comments, but some replies ... , your EC is a person, and is most likely NOT an EMPLOYEE of MIT and its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... interaction a synthesis is produced that incorporates elements of both the ... is such a general model of change that some might even consider it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  , I had nothing to do. Quick aside: The next revelation I had is why I think the question of “what do you do for fun?” is one of the most ... looking for a temp to run their social media, website content, and email

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  Website. Should I Apply? which is usually met with either no response or a ... fascinating biology is. If anything, when I talk about cool biology stuff, it ... *~*~*discover*~*~* something). While standing at a lab bench all day is not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet. “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... capital ‘F’, is very different in places like Ethiopia. Instead, I am seeing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  platform, and planning on writing more.  Why?  Because I think blogging is ... as blogging? Blogging, as I’ll define it, is about jotting down ... content with what is already here. Both of them made me think a lot, and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  exec board is very diligent and organized, so practices run smoothly and everything is well-coordinated. of course, things aren't perfect—there's a ... the set compared to "permies" and the exec board. this is something that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021