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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting competition! Yes, that's right, MIT has a pistol team, and a good one at that ... , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets ... have sprung with a vengeance, and yesterday, what I thought was flurries

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  year, we have to do a little thing called strike, where we unbuild the ... , it is coming back with a vengeance! Currently, the plan is to do an ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  standards: I’m writing and painting and doing things I love a lot more, now ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  summer, where I'm doing an internship at a software company. I was ... choosing to do the internship anyways, and so I decided I would need a ... I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... something that I could actually do when I saw a post my boyfriend's sister had ... ...didn't really do much. We basically just grabbed a ton of swag, vaguely tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  . Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... standards for "popular demand" are low), is a basic guide for those newbies ... -it-or-lose-it ; that means that if you skip breakfast (which you inevitably will do over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... spending quite a bit of time together assembling applications and preparing ... table with a hot cup of tea and opened my hometown newspaper ‘The Star

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  full time job offer nor a spot in the graduate program. I do something ... won't ever really know that for myself unless I do it myself. And on a ... . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  you get to do as a shark become progressively more bizarre, the actions ... , and watch number grow up. These overlap a lot with idle games, though ... 't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the hell a cross correlation was supposed to do. The whole thing was ... 't interest you and figure out a way to combine those things that do. You'll be ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  . Now that I knew what I had to do, the next step was finding a professor ... ? When people call themselves “grad students,” do you know what ... the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  from, say, letting a “Do Not Resuscitate” patient die by doing nothing ... to fail. I try to do this with a third attempt at a reasonable ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks ... group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  "it's been a year since I last saw that person." "it's been a year since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014