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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need ... me[/caption] Pick a science General Institute Requirement, like 8

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working ... presenters – “excitement,” “magic” and &ldquo ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the state machine[/caption] Technical review was at 7pm, and we worked ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... towers and had a relay race while wearing bright colored helmets. Professor

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ’m simultaneously not bound to other responsibilities, and in a mental state to want ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... skip 13, 19, and 23. The registrar lists CMS as XXI-CMS, and STS has no ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  everything we pushed aside and really feel it again. On and off, I’ve tried ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... blurred away as I get older and time goes on. What did she think about on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . My choice was between University A and MIT. During my visit day at ... one universe at a time. And that's OK. I am still scared of grad school ... I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video

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

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  courtyard (bottom). The Parsons Laboratory, the Whitehead Institute, and the Koch Institute from the same courtyard (top right). Killian Court and ... , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... visualizing rotations of two- and three-dimensional shapes in one’s mind, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  and State College have both become home, though in very different ways, State College over eight years and Boston over the past three. Here are a ... animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  Boston University, just across the river. And although it hasn’t been ... , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, two years of workshops, trainings, and meetings with an assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021