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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  reminding me how behind I am, or how ahead others are, especially when it ... while at MIT, it’s how to deal with a competitive spirit. 2. Part of Me ... result of it. Spoilers vaguely end here. So, where does that leave me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  ." "Yes," I responded. "So tell me, how is it?" The first word that ... longer by hard-copy mail, since it appears that no one does that anymore ... Hey guys, happy 2011! It's been awhile. As I write this, I'm in San

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  your application. However, it also does not aid your application in and ... how it has impacted your life. Essay choice 1/A, about a challenge you ... "keynote address" or "speech" covers it, how about "featured speaker"? This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand ... seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get ... occurred not too long after the release of Bringing Down the House, the book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  city, and a lot of it is made out of concrete. This does not mean you can ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006