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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I was waiting for early action decisions. I know there's no real way you ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  Okay, so it's been inexcusably long since I last wrote here. This is ... going well. The weather has been great the past couple days, I've been meeting with various faculty to shape the perfect path for the future, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are knitting aficionados. Did you know that the bunny hat I'm wearing above was ... and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn't really paying that close attention at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that SaveTFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... last year, i was too busy studying and organizing and last-minute packing and flying back home and visiting my old friends that i never had the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... full course listings for this semester!   I mean, tango? Fencing? I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I ... , but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... Gamer Men I simp for. [caption id="attachment_58795" align

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... (utterly bizarre) Wednesday Oct 31: I turned 20 ^ Definitely a 10. Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Today, I will dispel two common misconceptions about MIT: 1. MIT ... cardinal numerical order, I will start with #2. Around this time of year, an ... Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Since I haven't updated all week, this entry will be super jam-packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... ...it could be that I just don't remember it. But Wednesday night I was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... Session. Mad props! It was definetly something I'd attend again, even though I'd be hearing the same information over again. Anyways, it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  the last month or two. I apologize in advance to the folks who have asked chances-related questions - I don't have enough information to ... asked score/grade-related questions, here are the general answers: I got 7

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and ... "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would say is honestly pretty reasonably-sized for a grocery store). As I left

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did ... REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018