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  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... lesswrong.com might be a good idea, although I don't know how much good it

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some ... them in peer-reviewed and other publications, * understand how these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  times by people saying how pretty her hair was. I was thankfully in a less ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... 'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . “You have no idea,” he told me, “how often I asked [insert Math Major ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... like Elvis, but.... Here I am with my very own personal Clay. Sort of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... should not be the ways in which I'm learning something. It should be merely

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons ... blog posts of all time. In fact, just go read it right now. I'll wait

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  how powerful the videos were and knew I wanted to be a part of the team ... : Founder MIT life outside Tea with Teachers: I graduate in 2017 with a ... ). I was in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the corporate relations director

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our ... always something you can do better next year. In Europe, where the electric ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  always surprising how much you can play around and experiment in such a ... -143. Cyan's records (and the best scores I've seen in person yet) are ... as the "best gnome". If you have issues with this we can discuss in the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... during the semester can be hard. Early into the semester, I made a ... resolutions from last year…and um, see how many of them I actually kept

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

   grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply take the class and the ... 've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or ... -and-check? Can’t you just plug in all the permutations of the variables and get the ... difficulty of the class. Since I have limited experience in anything except

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025