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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  now MIT Assistant Professor?  (P.S: Answering these questions was super ... . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that’s ... event of my life.  What’s one thing you’ve learned in the past month

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here’s ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It’s ... you interested in teaching for Splash? Learn anything What’s Splash? It’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to come together and cook food together, the Assassin’s Guild would ... month! That’s incredible turnaround. Part of the firehose of CP✱ are, of ... haiku log It’s this pretty large Discord server, where all of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  , don’t think I’ve ever felt so exhilarated or so exhausted. Let’s move, and let’s move fast. Go, do–I know I will.” 2015 Now staring down ... post a demarcation of a starting point. Let’s see where we are in a year.

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in people’s minds so they come away carrying something valuable. I began blog ... that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  -0. We ended our season with a record of 21-2-1, and we tied MIT soccer’s ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3 ... day here, our group director (let’s call him Larry. He oversees my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s The more I listened the more I felt the lyrics deeply, and the more ... , here’s to singing "I’m still standing" softly to myself and loudly to a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self ... dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... summer I read former Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s sharp rebuke of

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone’s

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... Library, the second largest public library system in the U.S. (Disclaimer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a ... surprised I ever found him given the low number of course 14s. I gave him my ... in either 14.30 or 14.05, and further in 14.19 our junior fall.  There’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  Pao, Pad Kraprow, etc. "]pakaprow.[/annotation]I love it so much that it’s ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... . It’s tough, but I like a challenge. [caption id="attachment_88968

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT’s ... these students’ stories and, through their experiences, affirm MIT’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there’s ... through. Then, it’s also important to look closely at the situation, figure ... over winter or summer break, rent a car with friends, and see what’s out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  [annotation note='Bad Translation: Expanded Typography and Publication']4.s00 ... the end of IAP. Here’s a timelapse of it running some hardcoded paths–it’s ... Metropolis electronics mezzanine and Hershey’s dark chocolates. [carousel

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... . Or so I thought. Here's the progression of my todo list leading ... no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018