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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the ambiguity was kind of making me eh-ish about it. I was actually ... it made it even better for me because I never actually stopped having ... good fit for me..it has a lot of opportunities that I very much wanted in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  Essay word limits? I think I've written essays which show me as an ... there, they offered me a spot), has 450 kids, almost every AP course and ... hometown)? A finnish MIT student I've been emailing with told me he never had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  Directory Introduction Is product management right for me? The ... how the process was like for me and how I personally prepared for it. How do I know if product management is right for me? I think this is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  made me sad. the ramen was flavourful if not on the saltier side, and the ... . the beef was a cheap cut which threw me off, the bokchoy was undercooked ... sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  , all of which made me write a lot, and I did not particularly feel like ... about me and construct a bastardised version of myself that anyone could ... content with what is already here. Both of them made me think a lot, and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... 't think it would be helpful for me to describe them; these are the baseline ... new roommate, she brought me two interesting flavors to try! I thought

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  bed. She asked me an interesting question: “what is your one wish for ... way to a backwards-facing seat at a table, allowing me to get better ... there is plenty of time for me to keep writing and looking around. I leave

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... science and ambition, for me, necessarily need to be opposed? As it turns

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me ... neuroscience program (Course 9, Brain and Cognitive Sciences) stood out to me ... . When it came time to choose a school, I felt like it was easy for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  so on. I met with a nice lady who encouraged me to include my Olympiad ... unraveled each day put me in a state of complacency career-wise. Then one ... -the-clouds imagination that MIT got me familiar with. The designs were thematic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... feeling of not belonging, and then he was talking to me (or trying to) for a ... Calculus class” “really, who?” “um...me?” “OH but you’re basically asian bc

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  Olsen, the host, agreed to let me reproduce the audio (immediately below ... hardest to communicate, and it's the thing that surprised me the most when I ... ? Chris Peterson: Well, right, your tone indicates that you expect me to say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  .nano, and they let me (a clueless undergrad) use it![/caption] It might sound ... ), [annotation note="It reminds me a lot of the Rube-Goldberge-esque games I ... just so oddly satisfying to me."]there are fixed slots where the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old ... . It's 100% free and has both an online and desktop version. Trust me. It ... willing to show me how to actually work one made the learning experience so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but the good people running the meeting let me come along anyway. So now I get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  at a company that provides excellent lunch, giving me recipe inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  feminist lens. It strikes me as the kind of play more often studied than ... little about football, but I thoroughly enjoyed this anyway. Gave me a lot ... single time.” He smiled at me, a dark sardonic thing. “Half the world

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , and I got rejected. If a single rejection already made me sick of the ... someone. If you asked me why I shake hands, or hug people, or sing Happy ... just blame it on Zoom and call it a day, and it doesn't satisfy me to end

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  me. Stay in touch, friends. Talk to upperclassmen. They are your ... UROP mentors. The best way to treat the Impostor Syndrome for me was to ... around me discussing all the things that went into opening a new school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just before the doors closed and they gave me a seat. Close call. After

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017