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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... more than I can express - the precarious chain of events that happened to ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , so happy that I can experience something similar through front-end work ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... -related books Shade let me borrow from the US Embassy. I went through websites and ... , but about how I can rise above a letter of rejection, I’d have handled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at ... , but you can find them all here: Weather I've written about this design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... curved end, I have the milk roll, and while you can’t see it, I put blue

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that I need to buy a new laptop. I do hope that my laptop can last me at ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You ... from there you can share your work with others. I thought that the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  literally a decade ago; but, I can definitely say that I knew that MIT existed ... note="rip"]Google Hangouts[/annotation] which means that I can literally ... thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  that I myself can point out and rebut, but play along)  The infamous ... could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... striving to be the best that I can be.  There’s so much more left to say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  happened at the same time, from shenanigans I can only hint at, to ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can ... . collectively remove grey hairs (disclaimer: I actually didn’t believe the math

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean, I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually. Also, I highly doubt that you can properly collude with everyone. So yeah

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self-actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... getting it ready. no, it’s not all work, if anything i’ve been doing can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  the thick of it, and glad to be there. I still can’t believe it started ... phrases “once I’ve got money” or “once I have time”. I can assure you that I ... Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . Something like "I'll take one science GIR per semester" and "I'll finish my PE

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can ... directly, and sending it to us so we can keep track. I don't remember much ... . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020