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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  - opened a bag of sugar yesterday, and Burton-Conner kitchen particularly ... , discussing chemistry of epoxides. 12:35 PM: Open backpack to rediscover failed ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... and open. And we are definitely cheesy. Based on those descriptors, we ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  things; if the dorm were to open after the Class of 2023 graduates, and the ... the number of on-campus people if BC is open and one with the number of on-campus people if NV is open. This way, the different numbers of on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  want. And that spring I was unwittingly opening a Pandora's box of ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007