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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  played the “will they-won’t they” game in my mind. I posted like crazy on ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  have run a quick game, and then there should’ve been Meet the Bloggers ... the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I ... thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  matching game; how well the user plays determines how denoised their output ... many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... Reckoning The why game Teach anything, learn anything It's probably a good ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  epic journey, akin to the experience of a full-fledged a Castlevania game ... . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  , especially in the time of COVID it’s been a lot of zooming, game nights, movie ... current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  levels look like or go get the game! :) Your first semester is Luigi ... experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  to my life. The GRE is a game—one that’s not very fun, but one that ... -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about the value

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a ... at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  students. I made a list of all the board games in the lounges. I finished a ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014