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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  many files, or scraping information from a website, or repetitively ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably ... strips are taken from the webcomic minus; this is strip 8.[/caption] After

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... that the ‘Other people are better than me’ simply got stronger. From the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... 't from a song lyric, but I must credit "hcs" for getting the last one ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  realities come from big dreams, we are sure that you are on a great path ahead ... now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  that you won’t come down from for several months. Interphase holds a ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to redirect lightning, a technique he learned from studying ... from the caring and motherly figure of the group to a cold vindicator ... . Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember ... tell you their interests, or their hobbies, or where they’re from, or ... my interests, and hobbies, and where I’m from, and what classes I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... decisions in a vacuum. Decision-making and identities are highly situational

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller/less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... units[/annotation] (increased from 57). This will allow every first ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . The process of making what you can from a situation doesn’t require a ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... you are looking for a quick synopsis. Rankings can provide a comparative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  transition from having a nebulous yet tangible goal in mind to drifting ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... breakfast and chatting when the topic turned away from normal father-son stuff ... 's writing, she uses a lot of adjectives . . . etc etc) and got more onto the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... Optimization), and 15.276 (Communicating with Data). I have come a long way ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to ... consistency, so that similar decisions are made for similar applicants from the same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020