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  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 ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs ... as a computer science major.  I'll add another disclaimer here to say ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  suggestion of setting or theme, but the one rule is to create something with a ... you don’t create a masterpiece you wish to read aloud, but most of the ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... be viewed here. Figure 1: Daily Activity I made a box-plot to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  though trying to keep up with the energy of students. A thousand events ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... later today. 11:05-11:55 -- 21A.100 (intro to anthropology) lecture ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... they file tax forms,” she shot back. “Everyone does.” After a few more

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  yet to re-experience that level of wretchedness since coming here as a ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010