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• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... , "who would know anything about this?" and i said "no one who's now here ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how ... "success"? In the meantime, how do we prioritize? Just my thoughts. Feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  Well well well... WE MEET AGAIN. I told you guys our paths would ... little darker than my avatar's and when I smile in real life, my face looks like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... supplemental portfolio, but you do not need to; I would only consider this if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also ... , and a variety of other fields! I was the last person I thought would ... programming classes, but I’d never worked in a tech company before. But by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... . Had I not, I would have been disappointed in the final outcome of ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many ... Leetcode fine—it feels like a repeat of my competition math days—but I would ... put in my best effort and keep my eyes on my own paper. I like building

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... the physics textbooks I would use next semester (my personal record is forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  time. I honestly wish that I had kept track of how many hours I spent in ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  information I would need in a sleek Scifi package. Think about having the ... , I have a largely different definition of how much living space is ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... ) What I was expecting: Chris, what is the derivative of x^2? How about x^3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... . Look, I know how anxious this topic makes you. Guess what, so does your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... ") to that point. Who would have thought that many years later I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... struggle is worth it. This is how I felt during the entirety of November and ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... . I hope many of you will check out a production in your town this year ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005