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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... 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 / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of ... a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... 't be afraid to take a nap (they'll become your new favorite pastime). If

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a ... long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs ... submitted to chris [dot] peterson [at] mit [dot] edu by August 2nd. Good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn ... able to make it to the 2 pm showing of The Vagina Monologues.    ... by Eve Ensler. it’s composed of a series of monologues and group pieces

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  to feel just a wee bit hungry. Eager to make new friends!   ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you ... how to keep cool inside the suit. 3. Complete a quiz to show you know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... don't normally do on my blog. I'd like to ask you all to do me a big ... ? Make reboots obsolete by "ksplicing" in security patches on the go

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9 ... books. I’m racing to finish a manuscript of a book as yet unnamed, about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... you have to make a decision about a major. So you have plenty of time ... make a point to get in touch with them, and take advantage of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... incredible opportunity to develop a closer bond to some of the world's best ... conversation. :) "OKAY. I'M READY!" Excellent! To make it into this semester

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers ... ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  breathe. Here's a great article on how to make your berries last longer. 7 ... my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... pot will be controlled by a PIC that will also monitor temperature and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a ... was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... , I try to cook. And sometimes I actually make a palatable meal. Other

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , you pedal to make a hot air balloon float over mountains while you ... innovative educational technology tools that can make a significant ... achieve iCampus's goals, and if all goes well, they get funding to make

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005