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• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the real answer could have been unflattering or cruel to those women. But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few ... determined by investors and venture capitalists, and it is only meant to serve ... , barring strange web3 schemes that try to tokenize people, individuals don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have gotten if I had to learn about natural logs and Euler’s constant and all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative ... two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... latter. So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself ... .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... going through similar things made it easier to talk about it and easier to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to Python"]6.0001[/annotation]class recently ended, and it's time to unpack

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places. Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the success that it was. To most of you, this puzzle probably ranged somewhere

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014