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  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  how I should've done things differently. I guess I’m not alone in this ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... do this again?' But I digress. The indomitable Adam won third place in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  thing I would say to this is be careful; it is so, so easy to burn out ... the beginning of the rest of your life. I know that when I sent in my ... (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... would make sense in a professional setting like an HR department. But

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• 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 / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of ... hybrid worksession, which was in fact mostly virtual except i was one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• 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

  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

  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

  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