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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . After going online last semester they worked extremely hard for all of us ... class and ofc the TAs are all legends for carrying us through. bye jason ... was at the ART (shoutout to CAMIT for giving us tickets!) The second

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... really for Course 6 (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... get a long-term visa to the U.S. and the first question they asked him

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  lot based on the professor teaching. You can shop for classes. The ... then add new ones instead, but you can still definitely shop for classes ... what shopping for classes looks like[/caption] Pro-tip: for many large

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... Macgregor Convenience for my morning Froot Loops and 20 oz. Mountain Dew. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  bargain-shop for commodities, cumulatively exhausted cognitive capacities ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried, they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  anything else. Well, I did go shopping for gifts for my school's holiday ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It ... studying for their bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD. The vast majority of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  participate in research while they're here - in labs and machine shops and ... one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such ... in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... essay for the differing prompts that each college required (there were some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... number of credits for us on exchange. (There were, of course, students ... , training for the skating season trying to qualify for the US Championships

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  group of people. The McVeys have a framing shop, a love of the outdoors, and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... recently though, Dave was asking about possible storage solutions for his son

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010