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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  school. I still keep in touch with a few friends from there. They did well ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  obscurity as a one-hit-wonder. Posner writes about his fall from popularity as ... ). From an outside perspective, Mike Posner seems to be a person who, having ... carved out a professional identity very different from the one I had

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , that's a lot of financial aid. I know several people from less advantaged ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. [annotation note ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... some point during freshman year. My roommate Jenny B. '25 was a blogger

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... is a replacement for Artificial Intelligence, so it would fulfill a ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  . I think for a long, long time I've always wanted to be freed from this ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  GEL 2-Year students). The assessors fill out a "blue card" with feedback on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  't think the world would be able to separate sin from a sinner. I didn ... business which brings you this entry a few days late. Now, here is a blog post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  from anybody who knows me, but whatever, it's still a good time. I tried ... Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... July, you get sent a temporary housing assignment (this year, everyone got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  ’s true that I learned a lot from these experiences. But it feels that I ... . Looking back later, from a mindset of fully committing to science, I felt ... it. For them, it's far from being just another job: being a scientist

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  's a whole list of them, and they have themes that range from ... general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several robots such that they'll follow a trajectory that helps them reach their

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... through my fingertips. I’d broken up with my partner of three years from

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for that! If you like playing Starcraft, there's a club for that! If you enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  someone from GrabCAD to present our business plan and solicit feedback. A ... team, taking 16.810-- a 6-unit class called ‘Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a presidental anything before and it was definitely a cool experience, even though

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008