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  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  my laptop to reveal a queue of hundreds of applications. It’s about ... living room where a stately Bird of Paradise used to sit, that is now where ... -resolution monitor. This 27” monitor has proven to be incredibly useful for reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... this; it’s good!” “We have what you want, sir, trust us!” I turned to ... moments you grind to a halt and realize what it truly means to be here. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  had to try "Duff." Seriously, it's from The Simpsons, how can you not ... sense for the technique I'm using to make an 8-bit mural. It involves a ... It seems as though the more work one has, the more time one finds to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  basically any kind of promotion (clubs, academics, etc.) can be sent to it and ... fall, it’s been an interesting yet exhausting process to learn about and ... clubs has made it hard to discern what I want to join and commit myself to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am ... 't one of those)" Carmel and Dan, you do not need to do it now, since you can always do it later, but every year there are applicants who forget

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  , that it can feel impossible to reconcile them and [annotation note ... thought it was supposed to have three people in it.']forced triple ... Smith, who would go on to run GoogleX and PlanetOut, and later became the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... conversation is refreshing" because he quickly got to asking bread-and-butter questions, to which it takes longer than 10 seconds to process and formulate

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  like VS Code or Google Docs, we'd tell him to do it tomorrow. It came to ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two ... there was a couch, so we'd fit. It costs $5500 per month. "Beggars can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  discourse on the GIRs. Hope you find it useful. =D And to prove that I'm not ... same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it ... hear. It takes time to get used to the reward system of my workplace ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  figuring out how to use those… It really wouldn’t be MIT if my room did not ... phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... sketches of random things. You can think of it as a warm-up for drawing. For

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  want to write to finally put my social science skills to good use. My ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser ... -purposefully buy extra clothing for a reason to go downtown (to return it). Results

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  free to skip it. For everything that you do respond to, we really prefer to have complete information. I know some feel like it may be a hassle ... any information that is actually useful to us.  We want you to be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  take out the descriptions and cut it down to one or two pages?" We use ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to ... maximum principle is that it operates independently of the specifics of the ... it care more about, to be more effective? To see this, let’s consider

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were ... wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that ... happened to be holding its awards ceremony right next door, so I’d go into

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  alarm had gone off, I'm not sure I would have responded to it.) I did set an alarm before going to bed. I even plugged my phone into its charger ... . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  the app. It was, needless to say, super cool. Unfortunately, our app ... inside perspective on what it looks like to work as part of a software team ... to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016