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  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  . To label it "the synthesis of life" or even "the synthesis of my future" is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2 ... from now. But to keep it simple, we're going to leave the final product

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  , or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... have to start drinking it in mushy cauliflower smoothies. On the other ... , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was—and is—a lovely museum, with so much to see. I had just started my journey ... have no idea what this means to me." And, she didn't. It was true. To

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... about mit I want to keep this post (relatively) short because again, it’s ... the main reason I decided to study physics was that it gave me intuition

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After ... delicious it is), I forgot about my Saturday morning cartoons a few times and ... , while being passionate is an individual quality, it hardly focuses just on

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  to its extreme, reference frames lead to a phenomenon called time ... ’re moving (thanks Einstein!). I couldn’t explain the math behind it to you yet ... a physics problem on time dilation. It’s very easy to feel windswept

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  it, Groundhog Day!  After about six weeks at MIT, I’ve started to feel ... repeating, they love it! With no consequences to their actions, they eat ... sleep… only to do it all again the next day. In every episode, breaking

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  you guys; and I think it's safe to say the other bloggers feel the same ... exactly how it felt to prepare myself to click that one final button, the ... sure there is a single "right" answer to that question. I wish I could

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... important peer pressure was, and is, to our development as individuals. We are ... attitudes is essential to discovering and expressing who we are. Sure, Mrs

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  work out for you, or it might not. But it IS much easier to take the AP ... cried like you didn't see THAT one coming), but it's still nice to have ... we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  ways, this is entirely true. You come to college and you’ve been ... Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... . There’s still plenty of time to learn. It only feels like it

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  pony Yes, it failed to work, because I didn't put quotes around "pony ... decided to see where this went. Fast forward. Piper is pretty happy with ... that I was proud to have worked on, nothing more. (But aero/astro is cool

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 's performance of Avenue Q (complete with puppets) that I went to see it twice, and ... point of taking notes is future reference, after all--why not make it as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long ... last minute, though.) It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your ... documents from the applicant. The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  ) that allows you to visualize who you correspond with through email. It’s ... correspond to certain groups. The green area is the blogger fam (the very large ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... chance to try to switch dorms. It's a rank/lottery system just like the ... , and types of people so it's important to try and live somewhere you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to ... skeletal remains by tending to it as a garden.  The Welsh word for children ... altogether, the everlasting potential to bloom.  To bloom is to change. The

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  this pset, so it is unnecessarily demanding to finish the pset by this ... the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku ... it. It's pretty cool!! Except hard to do :( So understandably, there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  . “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... to stress, You’re on pass/no record, and it’s just one test!” (“http ... I went to the kitchen to make something hot. Well, it turns out our

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008