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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... easily focus on your own plane tickets, your own storage, your own plan of ... )                                        (Updates on Facebook)  (Is that a purell stand? On top of Kresge? PC: Samir

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of ... of the river on the left. You can see the Green Building, the tallest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  fun walking around on giant blocks of foam. [carousel image1 ... basement of N51, cajoling the biggest water-jet on campus into cutting giant ... dream that all of us standing on the stage were wired metaphorically in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  decide that, instead of falling on my sword before the fight’s even begun ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  lot of other unique things that happen on this campus during the year ... of my closest friends here on campus. So here are some pictures of the ... . And no, that wasn't a typo in the heading. On most of the main buildings

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... room. Another nice touch is Tony Stark on the cover of MIT's alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things ... . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... of laws and ending up on various rooftops around campus. Hacks could be ... . Let other people risk life and limb crawling on edges of buildings, I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for ... worked out the physics of shockwaves and high-energy collisions on a ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... spent too much of my earlier years laser-focused on getting my math and economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at ... Conti gave us on one of the first days of class, regarding tardiness. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , I had four problem sets per week, three of which were due on Friday ... and watched more old episodes of Captain Planet (5 AM weekdays on UPN ... Megan '08 woke me up on the floor of her suite. She was all, "Sam, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  on game because I was having fun! I spent time outside of game looking ... on top of a poster, wherever. The strip says something like "Challenge ... , which was on the high end of the HP stat distribution. I started with two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... called The Disenchanted, written by one of the people who worked on the ... admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or ... the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024