Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... immigrant) took questions from the audience. They spoke movingly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing ... .7, if you are more familiar with the 4.0 scale. This GPA was good enough

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the ... each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... -lettered fraternities and sororities. Officially, the nine organizations constitute the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The first Black intercollegiate Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... stark contrast to the brown almost reflective leather shoes, crisply ... white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other than the ones immediately preceding exams. 8.022 (E+M) had lecture notes

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... , the ones you live with are probably all great, but there might be days

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the ... the other side of the beaver (we flip our brass rats around after ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be ... 10:00 PM. He said that I should take the nap, so I did. I set an alarm

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021