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  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  easy for me to recognize why I tend to overthink a lot - and it’s because ... to remember that life is not absolute. It’s dynamic. It’s beautiful. It’s unpredictable. It’s crazy. It’s amusing. And it’s always changing. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few ... ’t know what half the variables mean. 1:00 — I go to economics class. It’s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my ... year into the future, and it’s a crystalline, pure nothing. Or maybe

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  that came from visiting MIT the first time.   Looking back, there’s ... time - especially traveling alone. On one hand, I think it’s really cool that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... , but choosing to apply is to make that decision a possibility.  It’s ... MIT’s early action round. And today, I’m [annotation note="it's due

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  afterwards i think this is actually a pretty common bias. it’s closely related ... abstractions, which are usually pretty enjoyable to reason about; it’s only much later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... weather patterns, until this fall. Maybe it’s because this is only the ... Childhood Cognition"]3 HASSes[/annotation] this fall! It’s not a hot take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  . ‘24 told me about their research this summer. It’s more that reading a ... skull this week and because I want to go do a few cartwheels on Random’s ... until I respond to all relevant emails in my inbox — and it’s kept my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ."]Registration Day,[/annotation]and I’ll walk into my advisor’s office, the same ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... the past two decades, my life’s rhythm has been the academic calendar. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... i interacted with the world. i think it’s borne from the wild ... to the author’s substack. i like her approach to things. i like her

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  -600). There’s nothing like the anonymity of a large lecture hall Banana Lounge ... Biomolecular and Cellular Systems Favorite Off-Campus Eateries Sebastian’s ... Jefe’s Taqueria - located in Harvard Square, high quality tacos Man O

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... positive trait. It’s about overstating your goals, setting your expectations ... they might be too high. In this sense, it’s all about constantly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  MIT.  Everyone’s saying ‘all the things you could be if you go to MIT ... To think there’s something to me. I got invited to a party...   ... serious?  When I look in the mirror it’s just Blahh blah blah blah blegh

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... researched what the best place to study math was. “[MIT]’s where I’ll go,” she

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... happening. And yet, that moment is embedded into my mind. It’s the first thing I experienced when I got on campus. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  , Italy through MISTI’s (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U.S ... York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to ... hit submit on everything from your end by Nov. 1 for Early Action. That’s

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... ’re late. It’s about as fast as you can go without running, and you don ... , which is really cool. It’s exciting (though perhaps a bit more stressful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... accelerator? That’s okay, because the internet is a helpful thing!) (Don’t want a build a particle accelerator? That’s okay too, I guess.) Learn a

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016