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  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in ... student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... '06, who were watching Star Wars in 6-120. On Saturday, a bunch of 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  My brother's not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words, "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... your living space. I was hesitant in taking pictures of my current room ... , I’d just flop over and fall asleep in my bed. It

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  these things in a ceramic, mushroom-shaped container (which we ... ! And our really awesome friend was in it, performing with a sword that ... got from our lovely freshman (that we counseled in Freshman Arts Program

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in ... in the future. Once we have enough High School teams in the area, we can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you ... thereafter, you can check your decision at: decisions.mit.edu Log in ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  In his most famous book, James Carse categorizes human activity into ... , scientific discovery, humanism, etc... When I discovered this dichotomy in ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe ... intellectual reader to draw the conclusion themselves." 3. Put song lyrics in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class, he offered to schedule a meeting with me later in the week to ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  . At any other university, people whipping out a chess board during ... crowd going to watch and join in. We are really cool like that. MIT OOH

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  test case makes me forget the hours it took in the first place. Instant ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021