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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition ... of rant. If you are wondering what my point is, it can be best summed ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident ... where you end up is less important than that you choose it for yourself

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  there is no bad option you can take means that any choice that you make ... opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I ... you face a very big decision: where to go to college. Choosing between

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ="aligncenter" width="525"] can you guess where it is[/caption] It's like doing the MIT ... ="335"] it's a me[/caption] You can also see me holding a wand in this ... was pretty funny. A shadowrun is a challenge you beat to get into a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , you will have built the foundation that a million different futures can ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... summer called Austin Rise, which is a semi-pro team. I have practice three

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you ... ? Granted, it could mean that there is literally nothing acting on you to go ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  ’s cool when someone unintentionally writes a haiku. But as you can imagine ... mind that can think is a mind that thinks the point is that i need ... just a robot I really can't count right now. at the very least. this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  made to generate a huge square wave (40 Volts). There's a part where you ... bulbs, the filament is a resistive unit, so the more voltage you put ... a fluorescent light, instead of a wire filament, there is a tube

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  from and move into places where we normally aren't found, there is a ... , because don't let their diversity ads fool you. They believe there is a ... where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be ... right before a deadline, and the team is just as surprised as you are by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... is we can all discuss the shows together. And nowadays, there are so ... , ask a lot of questions—questions are the only way you can truly change

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why ... instrument, or, in its proverbial form, "if all you have is a hammer ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... a program called The New Technologists program. The program is pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... : “The shortest distance between two points is reliably a straight line. If ... math pset.” “The real world is a thing,” she pointed out. Vocational

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  is near and dear to my heart. You're right, there isn't any particular ... there is a set of stereotypes which follow that identification. East ... yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free ... to maximize our chances of being hirable. There is a reason that memes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018