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• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... ; XXX but A got in and B didn't. Does this make sense? Some people would ... not to stress. If you do find yourself getting stressed, take a step

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances ... decided to juggle knives while "surfing" on a makeshift surfboard consisting ... Heaven. A tribute to Santana with some behind the back guitar playing AND

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... Ruckus has given way to Billabong. Like a scruffy college graduate who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  station, took it a few stops, switched to another train, took it to Penn ... finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... lets you code websites with just your voice, Bumperz, a collision

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  head up high. Because you've come a long way. And you deserve to make ... to make you float. Butterflies that might want to make you vomit. But ... ever again. So here's a little something to help you cherish every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... questions when I tried to make a simple outline of my blog that spiraled into ... cognition. But since I have till about May to make a choice, you can catch me

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  myself by making things up. I sat a while. I called my mother. I began to ... ’s a small town, and I make a habit of talking to strangers. An older man ... knives. I listen for footsteps and try to make my own gait a little less

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  to make zongzi. There is a proper way -- the kind seen in every youtube ... [/annotation] and asked if we were going to make [annotation note="Because Winnie ... ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than a dorm, and I have to take the T a lot. Fiance news Adam and his ... for a year or twor, then go back to grad school -- the company he ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a ... 'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  us! Make time for some “serious events”. Don’t forget to attend a few ... K. '18 "A Letter to CPW Pre Frosh" by Anna H. '14 "Events, Food ... . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... not to plan everything out, but to switch it up, and have it be a rest ... training, a bunch of small changes can add up to a big one; indeed, it's the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time to make it work. Anyway, I spent all morning putting together the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  shortened my name to "H," lol. I started working in this lab just over a month ... the same time. Aside from research, I have a couple other things to ... dedicated to giving kids of cancer patients a chance to spend time with other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  way to make friends; now I might have been a shy person, but with or without a fraternity, I knew I'd be able to make friends. I saw Animal ... degree, this has to be a decision your son or daughter has to make on their

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... changed is the fact that Facebook is now delivered to a much broader ... design and audience, as a social utility intended to facilitate the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  ’ll do my best. Shortly after we were told to pack up, I had to make a ... to rush into “making the best of a bad situation”. Personally, I ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... . 2:06 "MIT is very much a problem solving based approach to education ... professors. "There are two main ways to leave a legacy," they say, "I could

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008