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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  will be responsible for the impacts of that work. So far, I feel good ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  dexterity, but more than that, they filter out the spectrum of touch. You ... not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  class. And at the end of it all, I got the swim credit. Does that mean I ... presence of fear, and when I think of the instructor saying, “Good job”, you ... to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  drawing around since 2019 for good luck. A map of the US population ... -six people. My response rate is pretty good, with thirty-three out of the ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  you spent the past few years of your life is "good enough" or whether ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  translation but does not capture the whole of the phrase ... phrases like "the perfect is the enemy of the good," but when the optimum is ... good to aim at the optimum. This is in spite of the fact that I know

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that ... summer are: The Name of the Wind, The Sword of Kaigen, Tomorrow and ... the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... of the applicant pool, this time considering your mid year report. And ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I ... that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... good sense of humor. That way, when you smash into them in the hallway ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  good for us to restrict the credit load of this small minority? Or were ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... jobs/commitments. In contrast, the main job of PhD students and research

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022