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• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going ... prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... there: sometimes I get too tired to fold my laundry and just fall asleep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of people roaming Boston together, while I was still trying to get my ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... to Opening Day at Fenway Park. If you’re a baseball enthusiast like me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  from when I've last seen her. "Talk to your grandma as much as you can while you're here, okay?" I can read between lines to understand what my ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you

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

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  Emergency! A volcano has erupted relatively close to your critter's habitat ... problematic for my soft, smooth chains of Pockets. To protect against getting ... what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  feeling to know that you’re not alone and that there are so many people ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  you want to know: you get into MIT when you’re seventeen.  Maybe this ... ’m glad you’re excited to get to work and dive into this new life ahead of ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get ... on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and ... cooking, if you just take the time to make your model right. I find recipes ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your ... treatment of your application and to our treatment of one another, rooted in ... of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... up your interview, you might want to take a look at that posting. We

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006