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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  questions like, "Do I want to be in community with lots of other high achieving students or do I want to be in an environment where more students are still in the process of actualizing their potential?" I know that

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... to death in other threads, so I won't do so here. (*Match = mission

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... titled “I am not Zorn’s Lemma”, and it made this play on how you can count ... see this, in contrast to the above, I think about how the use of type

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... grand opening and some debugging, I asked them some questions about how ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  day of psets, papers, and reading, how can we not take some time away ... together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... you save the world. That isn’t how it turned out, though. I started the ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  and how to use it. Along with installing i3, I also installed vim in ... 'm working in Python, but I hope as I increase in difficulty, I can start ... 'm really happy to see how far I've come in this process. I hope that with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  bubble. How and when did I 'grow up' ? I once saw a toddler at an airport ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... I resisted getting Starbucks. In any case, right when I was beginning

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... graduate? Am I prepared for the workload? How often is it typically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  doesn't help that code-switching is so prevalent in tagalog, so i can half ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... of the differences between us, in how I see the world and how she sees ... can watch as I awkwardly introduce the group and we cover a Weird Al

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014