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• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... June, I’ve been put on six different projects. One of them is my intern

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• 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 ... . I’ve seen those features before and always wondered, what type of ... ? And it makes me reflect even more on my past. At the end of my freshman

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... part of what got me hooked on economics. (wow i am a nerd sorry) 6. The

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... because of the cumulative benefits of diversity on the student body — and ... educate people from every walk of life.” This and other statements on the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... and a big workspace with a bunch of chairs, tables, and couches on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• 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 ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... purple-leaved tree on our block of Commonwealth Avenue was located on the ... "]"lawn".[/annotation] Inside the house, on the wall above the head of the dining room table

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... finished working on the McCormick article. In the interest of saving myself a ... of April Fools' Day, the cursor on all of the screens suddenly grew to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... of approaches on those tricky problems with me and sang the other parts ... like to know what's going on, and all of these unknowns pushed my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  paragraphs and sentences depending on what type of company I'm applying to. I ... challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... forgive me but the fantasy I started on was pseudo-European, full of castles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... 1892 featured Paraschos’ joke, three quotes, and a story of his ... the time) with a thesis titled “Experiments on Resistance of Riveted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  place, sharing thoughts and experiences on many of the topics I discuss ... recorded instance of "puzzle hunt". In those days the hunts started on Monday ... written by a single person and printed on a sheet of paper, today's Hunts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  -joke. On top of the TV was a webcam, which streamed a video feed of the ... beginning of the hunt, with less puzzles available to work on, but Galactic ... on the same puzzle, even if it already had a lot of people working on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... reasonably conclude that women score lower on certain types of tests as a ... brought on this result. The question of interest, then, becomes “which

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... on the idea of having the social robot play different NPC (non ... , the biggest criticism of saying that a robot has a beneficiary effect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• 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 ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... thursdays, essays on sundays... and you will feel like every minute of every ... about. For 3 hours a week we froze our butts off on the roof of building

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  amount of hours on racing rig (Go McLaren—although they aren't doing that ... student lead/representative. Outside of school, I love going on food ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024