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• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... particularly painful rejection myself, Brené Brown’s words on the power of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don ... ME: open 24/7 ME: for all your dyeing needs ME: find us on yelp ME ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take ... might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End ... is on who they are and what is right for them, rather than the prized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... day? I'll start: To have something of my design land on Mars." I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  exhibits, sit in on a sea turtle surgery, and play with the octopus. The ... life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... hacksaw, a bandsaw, a scroll saw, and a lathe, and perform minor repairs on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  learning what that means to me, but I never forgot this passage that on ... -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... others who are still struggling on their way up. But meanwhile, the view

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  '  Optimism || VEDA #26 – MIT Ballroom Open II, Jeremy Jordan, reflecting on ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  engineer. If you ask Matt McGann, he can dig up the essay on my MIT ... at MIT - you can really focus on getting a good grasp of the material ... . Do the things that matter to you, not just things to tick off on your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... of gold that most MIT students and alums wear on a finger; colloquial ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top ... enough score on the FEE 3.091 24.00 as a listener, but I stopped going

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  who look like you. Those on my side of the counter may mistake this ... carefully choose those stories that had shaped me and immortalize them on my ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  submitted my Fall 2019 pre-registration on May 1 because I knew exactly what ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I ... .362: Kinetics of Enzyme Inhibition Course 6 [annotation note="I've read up on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white ... scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  sense of mysticism. Sudden rains on a sunny day happen when may kasal ng ... . Getting rained on, naulanan, causes sickness, often colds. Lots of songs ... from Signal Number 1 to Signal Number 5, which are based on the maximum

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... on my list are just a matter of the small size of the black population

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018