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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress ... graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic performance and probably also *cough* a better quality of life...who knows

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... expected them to. Have a few anecdotes!! Expectation: I start using my dorm

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  Francisco (hiding from the bitter Boston cold...hehe), after a long semester ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... Halloween, everybody! Cam: First, we have a Halloween story. There are two ... application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  Como vosotros debéis saber, voy a pasar el verano trabajando con ... española, y sé la manera más rápida de viajar a la oficina, y que quiere ... for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College ... . . . . I'll never forget meeting Melis Anahtar at FLP -- she has such a beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  a pleasant experience. You all smile about this whole firehose analogy ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "][/annotation]. Rather than a plot summary[annotation note="most succinctly, an 18 year old ... be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... am now the director of. HackMIT is a club that helps facilitate ... subtitle… anyways we still hack mit ! in a way."]Hacking[/annotation]in its

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... launched MIT Illuminations, a colorful lighting installation and introduction ... ://youtu.be/0_BXlbTborU There was a long article last week about MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... , but I figured I should doing something a little more intentional. A couple years (?) ago, Paolo mentioned YearCompass, "a free booklet that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog post from a hotel room that has not one, but two queen-sized beds. (One ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... experience this past Thursday where I got yelled at so badly I had a panic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... any meaning and also if today is a Tuesday or a Sunday signing a book ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I ... this fall, not because of administration (who is actually doing a pretty

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... 'm pretty sure they mean an academic program," and I wrote a new essay, which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (<_< >_>), but this time I was doing great! I finished up a few drafts

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018