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• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway ... '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of ... his suite: Ruth says update your blog!" And when Ruth tells you to do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was ... lot more other stuff that I had to do this time. -6.004 (Computation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... construction, as you can tell. Turning back around to leave, I spotted this ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  experiment, there are only 3 hours of data collection (as opposed to the normal ... first time, but much easier the second so this is your chance to do paper ... go much smoother. Then, you choose two "full” experiments to work on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to FAQs. Many ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date ... for MIT? Reason for discontinuation: Not sure, but MIT should pay to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  walks and ate many large meals every day, and on most days, found time to ... . Some days, I stay up late enough to witness the sky begin to lighten, and ... sun would only begin to dip below the horizon near midnight and would be

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  that are half-written and I need to work on/post soon. These young ... MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker, and I signed up to be a photographer! These photos will also go on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... $\pi_x(A)$ and $\pi_y(A)$ respectively. If it helps you to see it written

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office ... this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  previous year that contributed to my culinary development. I started working ... inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020