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• 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…

  

  didn't want to do anything; I wanted to crawl into a hole and never ... the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... of things I now realize I was doing: 4 MIT classes that are a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... position to do their absolute best, and asking them to spend energy on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and ... : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... who wanted to kill me. I remember doing a raid somewhere with a bunch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  do with a classroom of juniors who never really learned the difference ... skip over the next section, but I thought I'd do a quick lesson for those ... ) doesn’t do well on a test, my heart sinks as though it were me getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  describe life groups as the people that you do life with. You meet up once a ... with.    Reason for God During IAP we do a series called Reason ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through campus windows. Every classroom exuded a dream glow. Every view overwhelmed ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  admired them a lot, still do. Meanwhile every year, I realized that I would ... multiplying out two very long polynomials: something you might have to do on a ... ’ve literally never had a good physics lecturer before, so I should be doing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021