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Blog / Challenges
hello, again it me
It’s been almost three months since my last blog post, so I thought I’d check in again–I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I feel… -
Blog / Academics & Research
jr fall classes &c
quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes, i’m already inundated with… -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks
, the student with the Ultra Violet beard, J. C. Blumé, was an -
Blog / Challenges
We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures
Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.
On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. ’18 was known for always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).
A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT If you know anything about startups, you know Y Combinator. YC has spawned $50 billion… -
Blog / About Decisions
Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.
This is a guest post by someone–Michael T. (UMD ’19)–whose college essays I helped edit last year. He’s a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering.… -
Blog / Academics & Research
What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them
So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A - “Exceptionally good performance…” B - “Good performance…” C - “Adequate performance -
Blog / About Decisions
Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh
publishers before becoming history's fastest selling book. C.S. Lewis landed a -
Blog / MIT Life
Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!
That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.
Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E.… -
Blog / MIT Life
My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement
; I only discovered this space last year, when Justin C. '16 was taking -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
It’s Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies, and oddly-formatted emails. I’ve been reading a lot of… -
Blog / Academics & Research
The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.
(Michael C. '16's Post!) Being An Adult Budgeting -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today
of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a -
Blog / Admissions
Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~
here” but really it’s more like “most people get C’s here” and you know -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles
^ how not to do it. “Help! I’m from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place]. What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?” I’m glad you asked!… -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…
, Marayna M. '18, Fejiro O. '18, Andrea H. '18, Hannah C. '17, Sade N. '17 -
Blog / Events
Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…
-sets Past." This was one of my favorites :) And Valentina C. '16 dressed up