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  bye (for now)

  

  's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice ... cyber-storage. and this also feels right, in a way, like there is a ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary, a l√° 30 Days) – so this is essentially a dream come true. This

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... may seem. To the left is a representative picture from Sophomore Year ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  assessments. This process is itself exhausting, but it's exhausting in a way ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  affect students on potentially magnitudes greater. How about “Zeus is a ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... and so much harder to spend quite as much time staring at a screen. In ... well. That, after all, is the meaning of having a community. Much

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person ... of reminded me of being a stage manager, where your role is pretty much ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the truth, in a Zeno's Paradox sort of way. Part of the MIT culture is ... , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... , here it is in all its glory – a pen plotter, drawing machine, robot ... stroke path is, like, a whole other project in and of itself. All things

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective process, is what an applicant makes of the ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... undergraduate programs, and your GPA is just a number. It puts you in a category ... department is not going to admit a student who, in their opinion, cannot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  delete it a new one gets sent out. When asked about how much sleep you ... Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• 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…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a ... and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009