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• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... full-time job. In the most literal sense, given that it is roughly 30

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  in 2007?" You should read the MIT Admissions website, http ... actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... in over summers. This summer, I think I've made a reasonably sized

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  ) website. In regards to Harry Potter, I secretly still want to be a ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not ... believe in ghosts and the paranormal and all that. So yeah, you could say I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... , it was somewhere in the middle, and that couldn't be more clearly shown ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  scratch!   Step 1: Visualize the sign in your designated space ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you ... presentations to websites on an infinite canvas." ] Figma [/annotation] to flatten

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

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT ... limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  Wu in 2003. He says the following on his website (Network Neutrality ... team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... American conservatives. In all the primary reporting, responses, inquiries

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... individual business courses, the Sloan minor in management will serve as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... code, polished websites, sophisticated projects. On mine: a spatter of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... and hacking, in whatever capacity we could within the short time ... they build inside the dorm!). In a sea of mechanical, electrical, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving ... . As I grappled with changes in my career and my personal life, I used ... the world around me in the spirit of “you are what you eat.” The results

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... , unsurprisingly, How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, with 7 songs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023