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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual-based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... is to summarize a student's qualifications within context. We also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  the portal. (Quinton is the code-master around here; he's constantly ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost ... explore what living in that hall is like. there are semi-official programs ... - day 1 - feb 26 Arrived at East Campus with three bags, hoping this is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... ; recently: worm, cringe, yeah) but language is never digested alone. It ... ’s a fear in one of them that all relationships end, that there is a peak

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anything else, I should give a disclaimer that this post is based on ... lemons”  Is this safe??: ?/10 The [annotation note="safety data sheet

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  ? Easy. On the other hand, some truths are difficult. For example, MIT is ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in ... platitude, but it is a certainty nonetheless. The people at MIT are reliable

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new ... : 2. Catching Up With Old Friends Is Nice Group chats and FaceTime calls ... particular that stuck out to most people: "Spinning Yarn." So the idea here is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... empty my schedule is. The truth is, however, like any MIT student with ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I ... submitted to the contest “The idea of the set is to celebrate women in NASA

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can ... because today was the One And Only 03/14/15, which is 3.1415. But it's only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... Transfer with Professor Patera) (note: it is in fact "prandtl" without the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to ... hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you. What is CASE?  CASE stands for Class Awareness, Support, and Equality

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar. The air is heavy with humidity and heads and hearts, this week, are ... concrete basin. I have been on Dallas all day. My throat is dry and hollow. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don ... ! What is it? The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is an online form

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I ... little cheesy). This is what the syllabus looked like:   Summer 2015

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don ... ! What is it? The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is an online form

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not ... . This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014