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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  astronomy you're interested in. It's important to see how a different mentor ... future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it ... astonished at how many people recognize me, astronomers and IT staff alike - it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  ; Kathleen E. '22, from New York, lives near the beach, but does not go to it ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  are worth your whole grade. So everybody does the problem sets.) It ... Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a ... so our air conditioner thinks it's outside. I love engineers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... statistics. Statistically speaking, it's a very unpopular major." -Liz '11) 2 ... affectionately called 'Burton Jew' for its Jewish residents - eating latkes. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  day on campus, when I[annotation note="listen, it's my floor, I know how ... doesn't have to mean that you have two selves. But it does mean that your ... ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  don’t have shit figured out, but Does it feel unnecessary for you now ... I need the affirmation anymore. I mean, what good does it do? At this ... hard? At what point does it get easier? Does it ever?” But I held out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago ... merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks you've seen? Do you think it represents MIT well? There are so many ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  talking about how we haven't seen each other in so long and that it was ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  put some lab-grown, diseases-free ticks in a bin and time how long it ... how long the robot’s reaction time was when it tried to reach a blocked position (how long it took to realize there was an obstacle). Writing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  public policy in this way exactly, but it does seem to me like a clear way ... she loved it so much. I like making things, but not as much as she does ... infectious. It was exactly how I feel about writing. I’m meeting majors one by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  of the game and how satisfied I was by it. If it's a sequel, how well ... . The trope of 'gruff man warms to child' really does it for me (@God of ... ="the character switch"]the <spoiler?>[/annotation]. I did appreciate how it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  ."  But what exactly does that mean?  Would simply replacing it with the ... the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... , wonderful as it is, is so secondary.  And it's all about the primary sources

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  an Easter egg that gives the selected text an animation. It does all of ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... second prize (and $2000) for his work. What, exactly, does Project Naptha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  two off, based on how you average the grades on my transcript. So is it ... ;t received them yet. Does it take some time for the documents to get ... about you than how unique your essay is. So as long as your essay gives me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... , and it inevitably threatens current jobs. This does not mean we shouldn ... their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... , apparently, is a lot of much bigger questions. Questions like, “what does it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  online or @ a community college. How does MIT look @ these outside courses ... faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  about how stardom (and his ensuing lack of it) left him empty. The chorus ... anywhere. this last point is important, and i could talk about it for a long ... ” mean? Many, many things. does my research matter (or will it, once i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was ... things are becoming clear to me. This time of year my life has long been ... it has been absolutely fascinating. It was also very fulfilling when I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014