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• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  your problem sets. Punt your problem sets. Play board games. Apply for ... internship. Celebrate by playing board games. Tell all your friends about it ... , literally everyone you can about it. Punt the decision and play board games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  think and what we share online, which eliminates a prolific use of Twitter ... for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re playing it safe.” So be proud of yourself for facing those terrifying upper ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... occasionally shop for bok choy and Asian pears, but I don’t think it’s known for ... Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  concertgoing and playing video games and making videos. I had finally found a way ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  played board games! Surely that's healthy, heck, even more than I could ask ... cakes for your friends' birthdays, playing tractor at three in the morning ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... people were fine with that? This money came out-of-pocket; I'm not making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... feeling guilty for. And soon, shame turned to suppression and denial. Middle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ½ inch drill bit in a poker tournament, played ultimate frisbee at midnight, played twister on a rock wall, played dodgeball on a trampoline, and ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Comm 2020 loves you!!) and a student-facing-business-person-that-works-for ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... came on stage to introduce the 2020 Ring Committee. They had microphones

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... cut fitted slots and holes into iron using only hand tools. chisel work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023