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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  , and what about that VH1 “Where Are They Now?” special that you’ve all ... the oil industry or pursuing a PhD. I spent about six weeks second ... MIT or is there now: give yourself a break to LIVE. Take stretch

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job interview or anything that consumes you with this passionate WANT, we all know ... , because it really will never get THAT bad. If you get in, congratulations

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  either have already or will soon go through the same pomp and circumstance ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... yourself. It's scary, and risky, to accept another person's crazy idea, or to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  . But it was very adorable. Then, I will run, jog, walk, and/or hobble 26 ... slowest. I don't know if it will be best, my worst, or my last. What I do ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think ... -deprecating disclaimers aside... Things you will see in this video: angst, pretty shots of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... semester, or change them as necessary. Hopefully, this meeting involves you ... ? Your living group, or classes, or clubs, or really anywhere...but if you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  relatively distant future: our story instead concerns Monday, June 1, 1925 ... dormitories and ten or a dozen men piled out, carrying something heavy. Scarcely ... appear on the Great Dome in 1994, or when the Howe & Ser moving company

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white TV. It wouldn’t matter if you could use your color vision or not ... color, and we all visually see it more or less the same (all right, there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video ... will usually be four years. you have so much to do afterwards. regardless

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... -Campus-Senior-House water war involved kerosene and ten abandoned automobiles: CPW (or ... somehow a mere 48 hours away. There will be a plethora of events and food

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  ; i've never seen or handled a literal brimstone ... and determined what [annotation note="Academics (or at least the ones i ... various combinations of ropes attached to wicks or weights

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  about how fun or less fun each one was. On accuracy, a common thought ... to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people ... evaluations of character or qualification, but a little silliness and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC ... -code platform like Appian or Mendix or Zoho Creator, wouldn't that already have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  opposite. A prospective student, based upon what they believe will create a ... topic or an additional faux activity that frequently does more harm than ... their experience is a tally of hours, or they have to travel half way

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... already feeling inferior. Feeling behind, again. FIRST Robotics 1st place ... ) and ask. Anonymously or not-anonymously. The reason people there have

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  nice view,” I said. “It’s a different view than looking from a bridge or ... has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an ASE, I eat lunch, I go to another orientation event or go do a REX event

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other ... values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... with my professor - and sent the elevator back to 1. When the doors ... about it, or just be silent. Either is fine. Me: *silent* *ten minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011