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• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some ... than people from other schools. smart technically passionate respect for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been ... become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... college sports for the first time, had just joined my sorority, and was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an ... [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  of a more comprehensive post that i wrote for myself but didn’t think ... places, and i was too tired to look for more options: a large quant hedge fund, let’s call them D. i had an offer for a quant research (QR

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few ... that could give James Charles a run for his money. When [annotation note ... . Students have some choice for their final two years of mandatory education

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  recommend it i should also mention that there are other means for commuting ... ground when you take a step. not just for the purposes of walking faster ... while running, and that prevented me from walking normally for two weeks

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... the arts here*. For the artsy admits, who are questioning if/how they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I ... the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ... ------------------------------------- ola wrote, "I was wondering whether the 'creation' for the optional ... design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... our faculty have specificallly asked for hard copy submissions, and not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This ... guys usually shoot for a 1:1 gender ratio. Do you have any stats on this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  such opportunities are available), (c) who has been suspended (for a ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  whereas the second half would be more for having fun. small personal blogs ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... different and mutually conflicting theoretical perspectives on what makes for ... should also maybe warn you that this post is full of ~spoilers~ for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  research at MIT for the rest of his life. Around the same time, John Dorrance ... new methods for preserving foods that reduced bacterial contamination ... Science in Food Technology. This food-centric program lasted for decades

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  denier). I see lots of snow every year and Boston has felt WARM for most of ... MAKING! For years, it had been impossible to pull off - there simply hadn ... the practical uses are for an igloo in 8 °F weather - the most obvious

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026