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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  think of it as a stepping stone. 18. Take risks. 50. This is the ... . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times ... (with the guy who is now my son's godfather) at least once a month ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... . There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... me is powerlifting, which is just a fancy way of saying [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental ... application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is ... suggestion of setting or theme, but the one rule is to create something with a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  start. But however scary that may sound, this is not a post about how stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... how preposterous that truly is. Two of my best friends were rejected ... they ended up and roll their eyes when reminded of how much they thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  ? How can we meaningfully quantify how much a teacher supports a student ... which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... do we measure and how do we measure it? Is the trait thus measured

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  much. MIT is a fun place, and don't spend all your time stressing about ... sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and ... story :p) II. This is how my last cycle turned out, from June 22, 2010

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... immigrant. He is laid-back, friendly, with a subtle sense of humor. When I ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  grandfather, who was very, very dear to me, emphasized to me that there is a lot ... actually see all the many branches in high school. Math is a human and even ... Hilbert’s third problem, the problem of defining volume for polyhedra, is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  influenced how I designed Hydrant, a rewrite of Firehose. Firehose is a ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... guess, a bigger reason would be because so much depends on these systems

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And ... an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little dangerous. On average people are a bit more direct here, which I think is what

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i ... or two—this is always better than being a burrito in your bed, although

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  would be fierce. Emotional attachment aside, how is the dorm physically ... , way too much rebar, making it a Faraday cage nearly indestructible. Since the buildings are pretty much a fireproof bomb shelter (wrecking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to ... college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006