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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

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

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this ... passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  the various opportunities and supports MIT has to offer. And there ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  ubiquitous local Dunkin Donuts, the Massachusetts State House, and the ... good-looking restaurants offering Asian foods in the area, with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... that come with a degree from MIT, and although these things may not be as ... to accept a full-time job offer and graduate a year early. As for me

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... keep in touch with me, offer informal life advice, etc. When I got the

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  . But compiling these steps together, to run as a state machine without ... the state machine[/caption] Technical review was at 7pm, and we worked ... mechanical work. Which is frankly the perfect realization for me. My degree

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... moved out of state and went back to visit family, I always made sure I had

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  , to shifting my computer screen by 1-2 degrees. I keep my camera on in ... ’m simultaneously not bound to other responsibilities, and in a mental state to want ... myself even though I can’t control the state of the world. I read another

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree ... the states that have already enacted bans on the use of race ... .[/annotation] The reason communities changed in those states — and may change here

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  alumni said my name."][/annotation] Figure out an entire new city, state ... ended up convincing me to do [annotation note=" Real analysis is offered ... nudge, the “even if you don’t…,” and the offer to help me write an email

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense, does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... building codes also state that if MIT spends more than some amount of money

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... stayed in that mental state for months, or even years. Their warm presence

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... undocumented people living in the United States, many more are safe now than were

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... it takes a few months from when you signed up to actually be offered a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015