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  Paths there are so many

  

  whole lot easier said than done, but don't for a second doubt your worth ... that that future will potentially be taken away. Negative decisions don't ... applications, etc. We won’t say that receiving negative decisions gets easier

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  literally every step of a problem. We'd be lying if we said there weren't ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... if you weren't here. Be happy that you're here. Be happy that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  a pretty rare color in nature (other than the sky or ocean, which aren’t ... What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... TV. It wouldn’t matter if you could use your color vision or not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  based on its known coordinates. It wasn't much of a program, but while ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  people who've been in a class for three weeks before realizing they weren't ... . Distance is definitely a thing, and even Harvard isn't that close to MIT ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  either case, it generally doesn't matter if it's true, because the situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... admission, (even though there isn’t one).  This is MIT after all.  We love ... quite a lot of things that we love.  We love learning.  We love solving

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . The process of making what you can from a situation doesn’t require a ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  changes above to first-year academic policies via a vote. But that didn’t ... Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... . 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

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011