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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... 've yet to apply, this will help you out. Go back in time to your earliest ... ; notice how your situation changed. Remember times in which you ran into

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... first rehearsal to load-in to the first tech to the last night. Just ask ... interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will ... 's application cycle here. As you consider when and how you want to apply, please ... we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  .031, elements of software construction, dubbed as how not to get fired in industry ... effort in getting me to commit. i knew that whichever one i picked, i would ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... , but it also prepared me to get through this really really rough patch in ... good friend. As people were running around trying to squeeze in all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... aggressively push the lever up and down in order for the toaster to heat up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... their living group. In the Haus, food gets brought to our lovely front ... confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  : Know how to whistle while sucking in, instead of blowing out. Step 2 ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... pens, I might as well work for Livescribe and get paid to do it, right

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to ... around media development while learning how to craft cutting edge media ... , experts in their field. One area that seems to be taking off right now is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  struggles in her life up to that point, and how through the hardest of times ... students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... moment's notice. It does get super crowded later in the night, though, so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... 've been more meaningful in perhaps intangible ways. I've been applying to ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you

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