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• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we ... descriptions of the food and drinks you make with your families around cultural ... to the lowest, warmest setting. No one tells you that your thirties

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  to procrastinate on your Regular Decision applications or a distraction ... don’t feel as good as you thought they would. If you’re not supposed to ... to get, what are you supposed to do with your 80 to 100 years on earth

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  one for this year because most of the companies I want to work for ... about your GPA, thank the lord. I might even have to do all three because ... , I think I know what I like to do, and what makes me tick. I like my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... students? And that [annotation note="The company that makes Roombas ... about how to make the most out of a UROP. While I lectured about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... , with myself as the tare, to carefully measure out my luggage and make ... tell you, time really does start to lose all meaning when your life is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it ... people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It ... "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  decided to take turns making Friday morning tea/breakfast before 9 am ... ... I think we started early breakfast to make it to lecture on time ... important aspect of your academic and social life. Sorry to draw upon Harry

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  your Google Calendar, sucking away sleep, lectures, and other assignments ... hard to do alone, and besides, it’s more fun if everyone makes it to the ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... happened. To make matters worse, this was around the same time that a girl in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers ... pointed at a post on Piazza (a website where students and professors get to ... , thinking somewhat nervously about the presentation we needed to make in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it ... 'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your ... ; Notes Form. You should then submit your midyear grades to us as soon as ... form out? The form has fields for you to report your coursework and

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  competent enough to make meaningful progress in the field initially i wasn ... decision-making processes fall to this problem of infinite descent, of being ... people like your parents telling you what to do, you gain freedom in social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  of "spin" only makes sense if you're familiar with quantum mechanics ... , wrapped in blankets (individually) and talking. It was nice to have company ... you're twenty, are you going to dress this fancy all the time? Sam: This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  through in your essays and your interview. A really important thing to ... how to manage your time efficiently. Beat up anyone who gets in your way ... your own meals? Do you have time to fit all your extracurricular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to ... leading up to the meet…but some of the pole vaulters did make a minecraft ... teams can win up to $5,000! I spent a lot of IAP working on my website

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... with professors to go over my plans and make sure they were okay with ... does make me feel better. So I went to work, I felt better, and I left

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your entry. Thanks everyone! Expect an entry tonight about how to make the ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... length before sunrise. If I had to do it, I would make it happen. Otherwise ... -planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014