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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn ... many opportunities in life to not get in to someplace where you wanted to be. I was turned down by three of the ten schools to which I applied

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I ... recommend you finish your PE classes by sophomore year, but obviously it's a ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... ) tomorrow, and Professor Bell announced that there would be no new material, just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took ... with getting something new. I fiddled around with the pen, and found ... , still trying to get some use out of this thing [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... better trust my decisions, be adaptable to new situations, and fully reap ... whimsical sense of humor. She's so willing to try new things. The lens in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  -hour, etc...) because you never know when you're going to be surprised by ... Mexican?” Yes – these are the perks to being over-committed. You’re never ... lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  population. Really, a whole new world.    If you're wondering what an ... ). According to the Fair’s website, “the value might derive from the edition, the ... they ought to be in museums, but were instead bartered and sold by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that ... register by the deadline and then try to register late. Also, it is true that ... potential future classmates... in short, get a taste of MIT. If you're already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  lot of schools of the same caliber, and you’re generally going to get ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get ... . One of Daymé’s favorite parts of WISE was getting to build night lights

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... year the MIT faculty authorized another new interdisciplinary major ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... tickets sell out quickly the closer one gets to Chinese New Year (this year ... . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  reaffirming your interest. You do not need to send in new essays or teacher ... MIT. To address your other questions, I don't have any breakdown on ... admissions contact to another college by May 1st, there doesn't seem to be much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... journey. We do our best to make it worth your while, including staying after ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... sun rises at 6am sets at 8:30pm. You can get a tan sitting in your room

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  functionality a bit to make sure you're seeing new stuff all the time. The major ... specific types of content. Second, I've decided to display portlet content by ... with the authors of our features. I think we'll be able to get there in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005