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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  'd answer. I know you're VERY excited, and probably want to start working on ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... [/annotation] and testing the headbands to see if the impact on your head changed at all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  speaks Spanish. "How do you say, 'we would like to sit outside?'" The ... shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I feel with the fact that we're almost right on the equator. Fortunately

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're ... that matter most to them (you might get a surprise). Ask them about their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... course, to sit down with the course catalogue, your intended degree ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3 ... to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... 't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... : get the main thing (you'll know what it is)."]various soup noodle dishes[/annotation]to ... job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  . “Oh no! How dare they ask a simple get-to-know-you question instead of ... !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  options if you choose to stay on campus. The fraternities ... opportunities to hang out by the river and actually get to know the city. I spent ... people choose to get jobs at companies over the summer, for several reasons

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re ... he wanted us to take away. On that day, there were many other slides

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... weeks you read titles on the way to class. You are taking three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  biology rn (get excited) The grad school post. How applying to grad ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you ... on both exams, you're fine. I somehow managed to scrape by with my ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... management. Feel free to keep asking questions, and I'll answer as I get them.

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... , solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... to Market Basket. This involves going on the Red Line to the Davis then getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... campus. I'll get to work on that next week, no problem. EC. Matt and I ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was ... all aren't just names and random comments, you're people who I wanted to ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008