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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self-esteem and resolve my doubts, and some very deep, extensive introspection

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... you make it. Two years ago I got into MIT and Caltech. I also spent my ... , and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... much.) However, I ended up squandering all my work time during the four

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

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... ’t. This is what he told me:   “We all took different paths, my brothers and sisters,” Ruben said. “My youngest brother was born here

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  somewhat predictable and depends on a complex set of factors mostly beyond my ... usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or running around the Charles on my way to the gym. Ethan Zuckerman, who was my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... to) Gee, my classes are boring   At MIT, fortunately, that's not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  great suggestions, but one in particular caught my attention, in response ... , unedited, below. Anon Blogger Being gay and growing up in my conservative ... got to kiss that boy. And I just really wanted to touch my elementary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  Thursday nights, I usually use hints obtained from my TA at Thursday recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... class, so I do my psets on my own.) 2. Timur asked about water pressure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature ... particular ones, at least within my state. I could [annotation note="To be ... my identity as criticism of my merits, and I ended making a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• 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 ... was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my ... like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the Johns Hopkins rejection, and he was mad on my behalf. He's never applied

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my withholding the application process from my friends. On the top floor of Senior ... the inexplicable, my go-to answer became: ‘Someone gave a lot of money

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  posters. As we round out 2024, I wanted to audit my creative output this ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... like many parts of my life began to shift and settle into place, if only

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  Dance. My voice unconsciously rises far too often, and sometimes I realize ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012