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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with ... ? Now is your chance! Better yet, alternate movies (or even scenes) with

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

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them ... conversation with a stranger, but they will talk to you if you initiate the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... married September 15 (along with someone else you might know), which dawned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... let go of the certainty that comes with "today." I spent all of Monday ... to an empty room with bare walls. So I didn't, instead stumbling around

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the ... numbers that begin with E, like E23 Health Services or E62 MIT Sloan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... people carry around with them all the time, so I figured I’d dump out my ... video demonstration, and occasionally I use it to chat with friends while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... with a sense of inspiration and a desire for greatness like I wanted to work harder than I ever could before and do great things with my life. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  you may have at MIT that involve hacks. And so with that, a quick primer on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into ... ago with some crazy Senior House people dragging a car up onto their

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  individual's bias or preferences or familiarity with a given case has any chance of swaying a decision unfairly. With that in mind, let me tell you ... obsession with video games, dance, Mozart, Monet. I read about the person

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  arcana in the Rider–Waite Tarot. Further, the arcana begins with 0: The ... undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... people were fine with that? This money came out-of-pocket; I'm not making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the ... bang. i sang my last concert with the wellesley-mit toons. classes ended ... with friends, taking advantage of suddenly-open afternoons. i would see

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new ... societies in college, organized many events, had unforgettable time with my ... and presumptions. Pursue knowledge with dogged precision. Because it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  years too) was messing around with my totally legal copy of Adobe Creative ... … like, I was just trying to be nice and help the kids with their game when she told me I was too old to play with them. :( Joined the school

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  to lounge around with friends and take turns expressing vast anger with ... was running with my two luggage bags towards the plane. From speakers ... battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I ... to sleep, I probably couldn't. With the shade up, I gradually saw

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... 't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there ... (with the guy who is now my son's godfather) at least once a month ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  East Campus exemplify our motto—mens et manus—with their yearly Build ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second ... August 9th with surveying and flagging out the footprint. Doing this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  student life is that every dorm comes equipped with its own gym, which ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... MIT dorm gyms GOOD: The BC gym is new and clean (post-remodel!), with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  people vary in how vivid their visual imaginations are, with some seeing it ... talked about seeing things with their mind's eye, they meant it ... a pastor at our church, while still working as a professor. Along with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021