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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  first students to arrive in the fall and practice twice per day before the ... full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... all this food to myself. I like to [annotation note="In the beginning of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... were good, in contrast to some people I know who had bad first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the ... family to East Boston, U.S. Class of 1888 (graduated in 1889) Course VI

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In ... said to have graduated magna cum laude from MIT. In an MIT Viewbook ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013