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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... need to be, a place I like being. It's trying to find the optimal balance ... history as contingency is too much for the human spirit to bear. And yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  mind. Humans haven’t managed to figure out much about consciousness and ... ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate ... . —Robo-CJ What? wearing sweatpants. once you start, you never want to stop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  explore in college. Topics, groups, events… You need to explore, but once ... ’s no reason that you need to take 10 years to learn them! I hope that ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... ? Coming into MIT, I had been told over and over: "you will need to find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  wrong, now that i’m conscious of it. as much as i want to blame capitalism ... was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  halftone dots used to print old newspapers. I wanted to expose as much ... efficient), so I also needed to squash the image’s [annotation note ... were still recognizable. Finally, I needed to connect everything to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  600- to 800-pound weights on the ballast (“Once the rockets are up, who ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  in order to break even you'd need to spend at least $10 in the dining ... to ask for help when they need it. Also, at MIT, first ... ) pondered: How does the application fee waiver work? Do I have to wait until

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... easy way to find out if they need any paid help for set ... Studies In the middle of so much research, some human subjects are needed

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  those things was a copy of Robert Fulghum's "All I Ever Really Needed to ... thinking about what I learned in college... All I Ever Really Needed to ... need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  much of the population from campus, his reaction to this was, once again ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... you need. When you don’t pick up and move, it’s difficult to start from ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014