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

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... to stare at code for 6-7 hours a day. I could never be a code monkey ... . For a while, I've considered pursuing 15-1, business management, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... also represented the discovery of a formula for success in the admissions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result ... , or some guy raised his hand in recitation and asked for a note

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions ... eight hours, and while that's not a great plan for every day, it can be ... -hour days? Cut yourself some slack and drop a class (three cheers for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  . The reason for the concert is Easter. The lunar eclipse is a convenient ... , for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God ... three floors above me sings a song she wrote for Matthew and for Christina

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  perfect essay... for a price, of course. (Anywhere from a few bucks for basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't belabor the explanation here. A puzzlehunt isn't just about puzzles. For me ... for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in ... heart for that. The community There's a notion, becoming stronger in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known ... an area with a very large black population. However, for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  and working for a long time. Small Headphones - These are for walking ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... makes skype calls much nicer, it’s good for narrating what’s going on in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... for a test and walk out of it with your heart sinking, while ahead of ... underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... thinktank nature of people around here. Thinking is a hobby for many people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab ... section. That's a lot of hassle for one student, and it would've been much ... for him is a man worthy of MIT's respect.

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... has stuck with MIT for the last 65 years, and has led to a rough ... yet, MIT's residential housing system has, for almost a century now

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... 't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It ... new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• 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 ... man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011