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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  " section of my entry, I can see media uploads here in Wordpress from Chris Su ... secure where I was in 2023. I was the most senior project manager, knew our ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  again! I can't say I regret the intensity of the emotions I experienced in ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... our applications. It's not anything I can explain - you just know when ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... used their address. I used Gmail so I'd just go to Gmail.com and log in ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this ... which things might just be unknowable, and that's where faith comes in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  about the point where my phone died, so I didn’t get to take pictures of ... do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... constables sped their car over to where he had landed, with the one in the back

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  ’s pretty soft), I can’t fathom wearing it out in public MIT MakerLodge Shirt ... occasions regarding majors and struggling in classes. I probably can ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in ... Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... piece of digital interactive fiction. I ended up choosing to write this in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Toscanini's, where the ice cream is tasty and the electrical outlets are in ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... lawn perfect for napping on, or my friends late at night, but I can enjoy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  'm modifying... Anyway, I can't really say much more, because where's the fun in ... 's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... , because the last time I'd been in any talent competition, it had been at my ... students are really quite good at the things they do in their spare time. I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... gaps that I can fill in between classes, which, as a sophomore, are ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  ? Can I see myself learning from them? Do I want to learn from them? Will I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don't forget the money factor! Will I / Can I make a difference? If you visited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... designed so that it can easily double with other majors. I think I’m the only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022