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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level ... ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  them, that energy, the fact that they'll get to have four years on this ... . Plus, I was so focused on actually getting in to college that I didn ... before focused on the present. For a long time after first getting to MIT

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... that point.) When you're going on college campus tours, keep your eyes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... working hard since May 1 to determine how many students, if any, could be ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... working hard since May 1 to determine how many students, if any, could be ... waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... ’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... , and to work on satellite controls. As spring 2021 bled into summer, I ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... crocheting (did I mention I picked up crocheting?) and learn how to embroider

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware ... , on to very old pictures: The last lecture of 3.091 is pretty famous

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  + my plushies[/caption] (On a side note, it's always nice to discover ... decided. At this particular pop-up, I got the opportunity to get to know ... idea how they managed to "bake" the egg, but I thought it was delicious

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  ’t figure out how to get to them. I ended up finding a couple items by ... other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... , although that gradually decreased as the semester went on. I made sure to go

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... mentioned a couple of songs. I believe her words were: "If you're going to ... felt special. So, prefrosh, or anybody who ever plans on coming to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... do!), you'll be able to check your name and go in; if you haven't, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... at MIT. "I found that the admissions results didn't depend on how many clubs you're in, how high your grades are, or whether you scored perfectly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006