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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite ... process a hundred times and I'm out of nails. Could you please give me some ... ; I'm not involved in graduate admissions. Regardless, kate, I'm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  paved, and I wish I’d known older her when I was a younger me. I’m excited ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  Unknown unknowns As I've talked about several times, this summer, I'm ... I'm learning is how to increase the level of abstraction I'm ... function I needed to call where, and what each of them did. Now that I'm more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  i’m good at cooking!"]confident in my skills,[/annotation] with the ... things. I’m thinking things that you might not know exist already, or do ... I haven’t, but I’m still holding out hope. Vegetable Peeler This

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  . Yes, I know I'm saying that and here I am blogging to you all. But blogging feels more natural than application essays; I just pretend I'm just ... ."]friend[/annotation] what I'm thinking. Considering how much writing I've been doing, and to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Jane wrote, "what i'm wondering is, how does the essay really affect our ... regarding the completely optional thing on creativity by e-mail!! I'm an ... , "im glad that i kept doin all my other applications after i submitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to open the window by epsilon” Translation: “I’m going to open the window a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  )"]finding the friends[/annotation]. What I’m more interested in is how that ... advanced phishing techniques, which is… not what I’m talking about. The more ... behavior of a society.” Which… does sound very manipulative, and I swear I’m

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a ... enjoy seeing the guy (I’m so sorry, I should ask your name…) at the ... I had written more during my time here. But I think I’m happy with the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  much fun but, boy, were we so tired. I’m glad we embarked on the journey ... I loved each individual person. I’m really thankful for my friends ... staying in a different area that she was in, I'm glad we were able to check

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  personal blog and for The Tech, and I’m glad to be *gestures vaguely to the ... others to experience, and a place I want to make memories. So I’m starting/trying to step into some role of “chill Next 2East” upperclassman. But I’m

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m choosing classes for next semester ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into ... ’t think it’s because i’m a pessimist necessarily, but i have a habit of ... get all A’s in classes, but there are also many others that i’m just not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  Bluetooth headphones, a couple squares of chocolate, and two energy bars. I'm ... Boston, and closer and closer to my normal walking range. I'm still pretty ... bubble. I really enjoy having a mental map of the area I'm living in, both

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  effectively cut things that just aren’t working out without feeling like I’m ... different, now that I’m back. I’ve come into a graduating class where most ... , I like to imagine myself in the fictionalized world I’m creating. I’m

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  now I’m nostalgic for the academic buildings at night. I miss eating ... ’t spend any time on campus. I'm tired of moving around, but honestly, every cross-country move was worth it, including this most recent one. I’m glad

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... ache in my chest. Envy? Loneliness? I'm unsure still. Probably a mix of ... clutches of the past and I'm once again eye to eye with the very thing I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  analogy I'm trying to make by now. This particular anecdote perfectly ... from the chart, I'm fairly confident that this won't actually pan out. In ... problem that I'm struggling with, I think, is that people might tell me that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  terrible writer. Me: I’m… not. I’m an improving writer? I got picked to do ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I’m ... .  You’re working on yourself, and I’m just going to call you out: You

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave ... quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020