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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... ’t have any idea. For a while it was “astronaut.” This vocational path ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  they have not demonstrated a clear need for it (and often even when they ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which has become a standard for coming

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My ... a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... one of my hopes for my technical education at MIT: as a 6-7/18 major, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  's, because lecture for both classes was not helpful (because of a combination ... potential courseroad for CMS degree Now, the reason we scored this a 9. We ... specialists, those who can do one thing really well. That one thing for a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... week! And training for a marathon! What was I, Superdude? Seriously, the ... for "Since U Been Gone" on Wikipedia. So that happens like once a week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... day, just a couple weeks ago, after having been in committee for 4 days

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed 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 / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... a case) Spotify (for background music) I split Safari and Sublime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... that care for each other in an environment that also has a reputation for ... toons (a guest performance for the olin college powerchords): toons sang

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... ~75% of submissions. ‘Twas a bummer, but I was grateful for having ... publicly talking about the contents of the paper for a while. It’s kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... –10 for women admitted students, and a Minority Spring Weekend on April 12 ... the Tech in 1986, or in the 1986 Report, except for a single ad thanking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... blackface or turbans, stating, “Is there no room anymore for a child or young ... largely homogenous suburban neighborhood where I grew up to a playground for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective ... I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... of our thoughts in a post-mortem, and leave it for the next CPW ... scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  't be too hard, right? Not only did I want a different artist for each ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... , asked friends for feedback, wrote an email, and set up a spreadsheet. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023