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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  I’m writing this blog post’s introduction from an Amtrak train heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New York City. I always manage to…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I’m sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met the president of…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program,…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Now playing: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles It was a Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so “afternoon” was code for “depressingly early…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your application, stressing and laboring over tiny details.…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with people, and those peopled filled with eagerness, then silence, then questions, then hope. The event was…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I tried to create this video as something I’d want to hear as a nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you’re curious, here is the ZeFrank video about…

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

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Anxiety. It’s a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It exists and therefore we study it. I…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new articles ourselves. but in between the…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?)…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana’s recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  This semester has been different from anything else I’ve done. I started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year. I don’t think they’ve ever been so colorful – I remember white tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer — born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of the series’…

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and … cycles? When you don’t blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming’s necessary,…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn’t just because it had difficult concepts and brutal…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014