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  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... walkouts scheduled for March and April. In response, some high schools have ... rescinded if they are disciplined for joining the protests, while other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I ... 's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... random blog entries. You know, just for fun. 2. Tell us what you want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is ... dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  inputs for length, width, and height. Make a rectangle using your width and ... too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

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

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

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• 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 ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies ... all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash ... hour wait, which was no problem for a group of excited young frosh like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and

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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... -winning programming language. I didn't know what TEAL stood for, exactly. (Wait, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006