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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a ... . The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on ... wonderful young people during my years in the Ivy League—bright, thoughtful

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... knot, inspired by my classmate's project of tying knots and weaving metal ... ="attachment_84089" align="alignnone" width="384"] my original design! The key ring

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... you guys probably don't care. (Thanks.) Inspired by my own 50 Things, I ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  mistake, right? When I met with my advisor, I told him I wanted to take 18 ... material on my own. I bombed the first exam and got an email asking if I ... people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... my first year, I took a [annotation note="MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the ... within 2 days of each other, making my November quite literally full of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... Harvard Bridge during a thunderstorm this past summer. My first glimpse of ... enough wind to annihilate my umbrella and propel the rain through my jacket

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard from my friend Wally, via my friend Lisa, about photo stills from the movie that caught my attention: Hold on, what was that? On his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal ... ). Here is my critter. [annotation note="Disclaimer: I cannot draw well at all and I only have Sharpies. Please excuse the sloppiness and my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... excited for MIT, but I am having some second thoughts. Concerning my peers

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my ... when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  went along, and brought my little sister. She was excited to be there ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My hand shot up first. (In my boyfriend's words: "Classic Anna.") Marc

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... my best to actually bring you useful information applicable to the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  concert. I gel my hair and put on a tie. Dress code is "happy colors." I ... -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... also my friend and hallmate. We dance to "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015