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• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... -Decision Day Posts from MIT Bloggers: Let's Go Fly a Kite by Joel G. '18 A ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  : Facebook is a great place to meet your future classmates and get questions ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  whooped in rounds by some pretentious kid in a suit, I didn’t want to ever ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  two annual retreats to discuss the year gone by. Should be a very ... of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  Plans Early I may be a sellout but I am determined to get a nice ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  questions. How long does IAP last? And do you only get to do one activity ... obviously only applies to for-credit subjects) and a few other restrictions ... will be pretty necessary. I've found a team to join annd I'm definitely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  students everywhere can get a chance to get mindblown by the awesomeness that ... !!) ;) It's a great way to get excited for college classes. There are ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... sticking my head out there to get a better camera angle. As you can tell ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... getting four half-gallon tubs of ice cream and happening to come across a ... burger because I've decided to become a vegetarian for the rest of the

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to ... factor a bit about being a science and math wiz to get into MIT. Although I ... The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  to get work done) in order to finish my application. After a short ... It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... down I want to do big things, need to get better, am getting better Must

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... 's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... because a toilet got clogged.   2:50pm CET they managed to get me on ... :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo ... Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018