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

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... wanted to take to see controls from the electrical systems point of view ... robust foundation before foraying into the wilds of complicated nonlinear

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic

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

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

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... swallow any sort of intelligent thought that had survived the oxygen ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other ... 's another lie. I know some of the feelings I've felt. I don't know all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers ... is significance behind 21 majors, as 21 is also the number of major ... Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a different person. The question — the hard question — was which of those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the ... the other side of the beaver (we flip our brass rats around after ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... , showing only a small slice of the student body and the confusion we go

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating III again, I just want to establish some ground rules about the kind of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... about how you've stood tall in the face of racism, homophobia, poverty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three ... the style of a Science Out Loud episode. It was a class that I loved

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015