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• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could ... [annotation note="when I was twelve years old, I wrote a 60,000 word Shugo Chara ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater, I had had a fulfilling-enough career, and if choosing MIT meant that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... CPW, our incredible house chef Gerry makes a batch of his world

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the ... . That's ~22.5k new cases, with an average response, from a human, in around a day. You can see the massive spikes at the EA and RA deadlines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new environment, and many other concerns. I’ve even received a few questions from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their Own Startup!!!!!! (Note: this is not a general MIT ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view ... river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... para prepararme para el examen de certificación de CompTIA A + y clases ... , pero a mitad de costo. Mi computadora portátil me sirvió bastante bien

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... stressed out too, but I have always used blagging as a study break anyway (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... a seat. Of course, for Jasmine and I, really early actually meant so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... , every student armed with an alpha particle (ping pong ball) pelted a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... with life, how in less than a month I will once again be reunited with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... ) 9.09/7.29 - Cellular Neurobiology Supposedly a chill class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  lounge. The highest bidder named Destiny after his daughter. Destiny as a ... a ghost, two fridges have been nommed, and the exit sign is breeding ... right— Phillip ’15, hiding behind the Cheez-Its. Phillip is a freshman on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... advice. Case in point--there was a parent of a fourth grader (that's right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... fellowships.  I took the GRE a few weeks ago, which though not necesarily

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011