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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  the inability for additional differentiation between a zero and a one ... everything.  The college decision, for example, should be about much more than ... information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked ... I’d previously had for the subject. It was partly due to my disliking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT ... Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my ... . This one is "Openness and Respect". Speaking for myself, I find it ironic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  wrote that. This is why for the most part my past blogs aren’t deeply ... things I’ve made. I had a plan for how and when I’d finish writing. The ... Communication Fundamentals When I signed up for this class, courseroad marked it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... starts.  Seriously, for better or worse, I’ve spent basically every waking

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana ... entertain thoughts, and when to save them for later. Give myself the space

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four [annotation note="and an unspecified number of residents who identify as furries"]furry residents

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  okay. We have posted more information on next steps for deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... Seven for the first time. Enlightened. Inspired. Perhaps more insightful ... hallways. And people. And chalkboards. For a month, I could've been anywhere

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays ... . I’m considering staying for a master’s degree. To decide is to walk ... abstract algebra; to choose a different dorm; to ask for academic help. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  questions that you may have for me. (Note that you can comment anonymously ... have What I do for fun Food eating habits Thoughts about making ... . For example, if you ask me about what my SAT scores were, I'll say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in ... ended up here. And, also, I think it's important for me not to inflate my position. I am just a small blogger for some random school. I am no Elliot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... message. I want to share my story with you and thank you for all the amazing effort you and your team had made for all the candidates :) Thank you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  because I saw so few students, or because I've been away from campus for ... don't know what the healthy balance is. my process for meeting up with ... Mocha Moves members to choreograph a piece for our virtual set a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  exact same classes for those four years. You really got to know some ... 't want that fate. For the rest of high school, I realized it was infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020