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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  real results. Game 1: Hide and Seek. From a list of 20 places, choose ... from AoPS; it’s basically a more involved version of that. In Nash ... we tried to incentivize distrust a bit more. Based on a suggestion from

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ; that I was a fraud from the beginning. In reality, there were a lot of ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... from a stress fracture, and am just getting back into my running groove

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... their waxy exterior a different emotion: boredom, support, nervousness

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  lessons and regress and retreat from who I could be...that hurt a lot. It ... lieu of moving on from it. When I sensed the beginning of a spiral of ... wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  orbiter after taking samples from a planet or asteroid. Right now, I feel ... ’ll be a few years from now. At this time a year ago, I thought I might ... from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec is a classic Type 2, and my boyfriend says ... call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little Pig. It got ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It ... sedentary but from decreasing ability to observe a healthy diet and say no to ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... represents a husk, a shell from which all the life has been removed. The field

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  'll leave you with one more excerpt from our work: Choosing a major, just ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  three story posts in one piece from the ground and they required a lot of ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... advance for all the shakiness. Here is ~10 minutes from the 1 hour talk ... AN EXPERT IN ANYTHING.) Things Elizabeth Learned From Attending Mark

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  hanging from a window and half a dozen people leaning out and waving at us ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  . These classes range from 3-hour-long “etch a tiny image onto silicon ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here ... opinion from there. I say this because current students develop over time a ... gotten praises from friends, acquaintances, and not-so-much acquaintances

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , move forward a bit, then turn. jump from hobby to hobby. pursue wide and ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  . After rushing back from Chipotle, I speedran a more cleaned up digital ... Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023