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• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We ... are the numbers, and there are only so many spots. Shannon '12 did an

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  in history and government but only 3 in the sciences, all of which are ... MIT, at least with your scores and exhaustion of the math curriculum ... , plenty of extracurriculars and all of the APs I would want to take, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... lemony! and garlicky! and delicious!! I'd make the sauce just to dip bread in, honestly. Shakshuka   This has got to be one of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  , first of all, the T only runs until about 12:30, so without any way of ... show, the cast brings some virgins to the front of the theater and has ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... pictures of Muppets, and not much else. Just for the sake of completeness, I ... coordinating remote solvers and such. There are, of course, lulls in the action

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... creation of the Black Student Union and the Undergraduate Association ... a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  ;   Tomorrow is Career Fair, and out of the 26 emails I’ve received so ... presentation. She watered and trimmed all of the inhabitants.     ... . ____________________________ This post is the first in what I hope is a series of live one-hour slices

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to ... Analysis of Disease Susceptibility and Hereditary Patterns Using a Multi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of ... ; mine were East Campus Histroy, Latinx Culture in the Age of Empire, and ... the final design. My mom and dad came out to help us work, and all of us

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14 ... really like it--i'm content to be left alone most of the time, and i get to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  dedication of the self, and this naruto battle… well, i suppose you can ... just to practice thinking and working with the same level of desperation ... of anger and resentment and jealousy and to fuel the achievement of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... , slightly ragged due to the endless wear of psets and midterms, was renewed ... Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming ... .001 (Mechanics and Materials) test went over like a bag of rocks. Technically, I ... of that quiz than any test I'd ever taken. I spotted the admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  about their worries and we shared something at the top of an abnormally ... to walk alone and listen to the sound of silence, and I chose to splice ... ecstasy of hot water and then cold, over and over, next to the mountains. At

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I ... be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  to laze around and watch War of the Worlds with Adam's dad (um, lame ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  formulate a response, before I could think of the joy and fulfillment MIT ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022