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• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and ... 1st, when I submitted an application that I was pretty proud of.  By ... drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... for more reflections along this train of thought, though. Interval - This was Joon and I's final project for 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the over-achievers or 6 for the eventually sleep-deprived). Well, at least we ... .042 – Math for Computer Science (just had our first exam, so bleh^2) CMS.100

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  sells 1-way Amtrak tickets between Boston and Providence for less than $10 ... pretty sleep-deprived the next day because I only slept for an hour, but I ... called Massimo for dinner where I ate the best tiramisu of my life

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... working out. So if you've been listening for these past few blog entries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last ... waitlisted and prepare it for the waitlist committee. And bug committee members

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... for Valentine’s Day, we watched a documentary for more on nuclear ... Beat, a set of lighted attachments for guided drum learning - video here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a ... started blogging, I wondered for a while what my "writing style" was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year ... in a few minutes (for those last two PE Points!) and the swimming pool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  's possible. I thanked him for setting up such a great admissions process/website ... condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try ... tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  have a really cool website where you can see the program for the whole ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008