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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... on. Hey, we're on 34th Street and we're about to go to Chinatown, so we ... would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do ... don't want to work on Wall Street and I hate everything about business ... to be a theater major who goes on to be a famous actor. I can't simply

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... grow on me. I began to imagine a world in which I graduated from MIT as a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... through action. It is good to know where the moon is, but you’ll never get ... giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... , when am I going to get this kind of freedom again?  ... Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  these entries on a superficial level precisely so I don't have to make ... corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... promise to write retroactive entries on everything that kept me too occupied ... mean "this morning?") watching a biblical archaeology special on The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  to live on campus if students promised to adhere to the quota and abide ... pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... , gerbils, and guinea pigs. Residents have on occasion decided midyear to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  gather my belongings a bit, and get my bearings on the day. [caption id ... /with the sculpture and briefly considered continuing on to Maggie Daley Park ... lost a fourth vote and is on his way to losing a fifth. They say the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... , and even attempted to get in on magnificent Black Friday deals, but ... satisfied to our rooms, to rest. On Thanksgiving Thursday, Denali ‘18 (who

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... animals. We turned to [William Temple] Hornaday's book on the animals of ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  idea that you have to get out of the building and really understand ... to include the people you're trying to help in the design process ... 's important to remember that being an engineer doesn't preclude your ability (or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  morning to a warm weight on my tummy, the little gremlin dog I called ... laying down on the hardwood floors arms wide open as Snickers came over to ... coming to parent nights. I, on the other hand, had to try and schedule my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... . They are people who Harvard students hire to work on their dreams. I ... the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... 'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  it on the guitar. To quote a Redditor explaining their dislike for ... such. Like Pluto, it is socially acceptable to dunk on djent. After all ... want your soul to be revealed and exposed and perceived beyond belief

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... handing people markers and getting them to solve crosswords, the next night ... realization or stunning insight that i've come to a conclusion on. instead, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  meetings, and new advertisements to peruse. Most people just stream by ... first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013