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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... , composed collaboratively and in no particular order. a treasury of erasure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  like it An important lesson: no matter how "screwed" you think you are ... understand the concepts and that didn't help. It seems that no matter what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT's temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to put off finishing all the half-baked blog posts from this month. The ... stomachs and no desire to return to IHOP for infinite pancakes anytime soon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  's really not that hard.  As the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad ... make the biggest investment.  No, the cute jacket you bought in July won

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  ? It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school ... students whose interviews have been waived are at no disadvantage). You are

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  around on the white wall in whatever direction it wanted to go. No mistakes, no stress, just freeform self-expression.   *Exclusive

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Pay no attention to the lab partner behind the proto board. After that ... Rick Astley and "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways. No way! "Come and Get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  what really mattered. Once I knew, the question no longer presented a ... ? Surely, but I have no regrets, as the experience was essential in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  he holds no connection to MIT itself. He has never been a student; he ... has come to adopt him, despite no direct link. "I was here juggling last

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  : As you can see, there’s no cascade of steps to follow. It’s a lot of ... ? Yes. No. Maybe.  In the end I decided to spend my summer in Houston

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... ...London. Interviewer: Yes yes, but where in London? Me [thinking: there's no way you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  dozens of fields, open exclusively to MIT students. Although there is no ... "just do it", but there was no fear about going down a wrong path. Trying

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  noticed several inaccuracies: (1) I'm no longer 18 (I'm actually 56 now ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  is my compilation of his response, in no particular order: 1. Always ... , how far can you go? At the end of the day, no one gets out alive.” New

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  prepare: CPW will overwhelm you. There is no other way to put it. There ... will be some mysterious fun game (I have no idea what it is) once you get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  wanting to try but not really trying, I can ride my bike with no hands. I ... , old enough that I no longer have to fax papers home for parent

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  stop for the second bus we needed to catch. No matter how many people we asked about the bus stop, no one knew where we could find this last bus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... MIT is right for them.  That's hard for me to say, because there's no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  making, I have no problems with contributing to life lesson #2 But beyond ... of my labor: Thankfully no one was upset about me butchering their

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012