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

  

  worked on last semester: Firehose, which I now help maintain. Firehose ... answer is this blog post. Here's six projects I worked on some time during ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  MIT helped me take care of that, too. Finding an on-campus job can be a ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  MIT Application went live. As many of you know, last year's application ... 't just a "polite rejection." I started to hope again. ~*~ Today, I'm here

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... feel a bit old. Social media as we know it today didn't exist when we

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

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  , and I live with my charming rocket scientist husband Adam '07 and our ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... . Functionally, this means that I'm basically done taking classes, and I'm living

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , the "fine print" on our acceptance letter includes the following clause ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... that students should not make decisions based on what they think will get

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... attack each line item on the list like Ray Lewis cleaning a wideout's clock on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped ... encryption The first air-conditioned building The "memex" - which helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  avoid the self-checkout lane. I know, I really live life on the edge ... you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... and open. And we are definitely cheesy. Based on those descriptors, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  tongue momentarily went into shock, because after that my mouth was on fire ... throughout my mouth. It didn't help that the guy across the table from me was ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  me hands-on experience and helped me decide if I wanted to do something ... missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to ... absolutely no desire to be a lawyer, but the people on the team really are the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... visualizing her incredible badassitude, this picture should help. Here are just ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011