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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to ... spent somewhat-to-completely productively. This leaves only the two weeks ... . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... . So when you're cutting down on the things you're bringing, make sure to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... . Yesterday, as we made circles in an empty school parking lot, the sky stormed ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. *hug*  

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps will make the experience that much more bearable. Step 1: Eat Properly How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted in EA

  

  and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  ). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well ... Academy's newest employee? And did you see the story about Sal Khan '98 on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.  *hug* 

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying ... from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb ... braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the other bloggers and sometimes we get together and have blogger fun. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... annual event put on each April by the South Asian American Society (SAAS ... 's theme was Inception, and interspersed between the different acts were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... 's because my brain can't do the think now because it thunk too hard and wants

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011