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• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... from your social circle for a week when you start dating someone. So fall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... waiting. I also helped review a poster design for Splash. The theme was ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a

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

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’s a line from a Dr. Dre interview that I think about all the time: “I ... 't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of ... actually relax by not doing this to myself! I am taking a break from setting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... ~75% of submissions. ‘Twas a bummer, but I was grateful for having ... had no idea how to choreo. Although I’ve been practicing poi for a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  of a firehose, but can't I step slightly away from the nozzle? I ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... to stare at code for 6-7 hours a day. I could never be a code monkey ... . For a while, I've considered pursuing 15-1, business management, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I ... don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan ... Square, where our next run begins. CJ: I remember we were sitting in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a ... part of this feeling comes from the fact that I have a less student

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I ... world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  't from a song lyric, but I must credit "hcs" for getting the last one ... any true talent for them... I'm a "peasant" of a student, not a "poet ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably include a train reference every time I write an entry from a train. I will ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  most fascinating thing but interesting content can only carry a class for ... field trips and buy things for your projects using a budget. The class ... couple of papers a week, which I felt helped me a lot to get context for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... for robotics, and then I picked 2A-Robotics (lol). Sophomore year I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• 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…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a ... eight hours, and while that's not a great plan for every day, it can be ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018