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• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... like after graduation.  In retrospect, I should have been more proactive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  ’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of ... have actually met in person before (when that was still a thing that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the ... kind of control, I began walking in earnest, sometimes seven or ten miles ... ’t exist. By the time I was moving in my friends for the fall semester, the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a ... consumed more fanfiction in my life than I have non-fanfiction content which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that ... some apple crumble and pie that’s also left in our free food table ... some croissants from the Dunkin in [annotation note="the woefully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  names in the code were also in Spanish! Another key point: it’s cost ... , Peru [annotation note="I flew from Santiago, in case anyone was actually ... but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... have mixed feelings about my own writing in the moment, as one does, but when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... , culminates today, in the launch of the MITAdmissions redesign. Why did we ... had on so many readers. However, as is always the case in web design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... cardboard fort in the Mailbox Lounge. We'll be working on the construction all ... you've ever seen before. Meet us in our dining hall. 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... robots that actually did quite well in the competition! It's been a lot of ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the ... you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in ... !" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ...they’re all a little bit off-the-charts in one way or another. And you ... Academy, 2012 commencement speaker (in one week!) --- Some of you might ... 't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012