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• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... .0001[/annotation] to code that. How many hours is this battery going to last us? I ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  fascinating, and space exploration is a mission that I believe is meaningful and ... a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are ... [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... stuff. [10] Me vs. Gato Something I'm a bit sad to admit is that I'm not ... . However, I think that gender ought not to be a major determining factor in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's conundrum. in it she quotes mihir desai, a quote that's stuck with me, so i ... , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... photograph of a swing and how that image says more about the world than any ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It’s who you are that really

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... habit, but I do think it is a compulsion, which I am uneasy about. So, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  that kind of attention. In a moment of grave seriousness, I’ll say it has ... ask me that again in a few weeks when I have to declare, and then again ... find most comforting through all of this is that in talking to a range of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  year in next week's Tech issue, which I also think is a really good read ... 't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our ... wouldn't be too bad if I didn't get a CPW in 2019, because I'd be doing CPW

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ‘how lucky that I shall never have to do that.’  # My worry is that if I ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... thousand cookies, that's a lot of cookies. I don't think you realize. That is ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  was far too headstrong and honest and bold to do that. And in a way, I ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. Buildings in main campus do not have a letter in front and just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... , Classes I Won't Be Able to Take and Exploring Classes. My two cents is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... is still around 1”. All in all, I’m quite pleased with how the sword ... set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... enjoyed doing research that year, though I was never invested in it enough ... . But let me repeat that it is a misconception. I had a friend whom I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015