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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  . At most institutions, campus construction would be mentioned in the ... wood in the walls. Few institutions would even bother to share these ... impressive recreational work it brought forth would remain in the institutional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... in the works that would include faculty talks from MIT’s cast of ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of ... interests I have tended to focus on MIT's leadership in artificial

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position ... of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my ... waste when I have a ton of veggies starting to go bad in my fridge. Maybe

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions ... still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011