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

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else do you ensure you make the best choice? You think about it. You imagine yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the

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

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow the instructions. If you still need help after that, feel free to email [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  -- and we've each come up with a unique product, and have spent the last ... finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... memory. Walls papered with activities posters, that's the main image I ... would visit MIT several more times for the Harvard-MIT Mathematics

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6.2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai says something along the lines of: people are their blades! bluntness

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you wanna go, said the inhibitor blocking the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling ... , and making everything seem rosy feels false. On the other hand, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  Happy November! Two days ago, it snowed for the first time this fall in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... [/caption] [caption id="attachment_58338" align="alignnone" width="1080"] the view

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... over the last year alone. More than 42,000 over the last five years. When

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... have been savoring all the delicious home-cooked meals. Most importantly, I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers:   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... empty my schedule is. The truth is, however, like any MIT student with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  walked into my former chemistry teacher's office (he was now the principal ... work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... New York Magazine’s The Strategist. The Strategist is essentially a sort of shopping advice blog, with article titles like “Deals of the Week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... this before on the application process here. This time, however, I wanted to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  Facebook event, I went hysterical to say the least. Yall! Second chances actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  over the grill. From weekly family dinners, to Pancake Sunday with my ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015