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• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was, naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  opposed to invisible force-field-looking boundaries. And DDA is a line ... would go back to rendering the particles using our original brute force ... course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  of Feb 5!! Go to our website for more info: alumweb ... may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... of velvet and sock and foam, sewing was a pain; I had to force the ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  , to bring to Paula J. '13's birthday/ANTM and Star vs. the Forces of ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  that the website you linked to is your blog - if you could send me a copy ... house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... with his card. Le sigh. I suppose it happens even to the best of us. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... the textbook more than just about any other textbook I've had to use, but I like the material. It's relevant to what I want to do. 6

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  , unable to force myself out of bed to eat, staring at the ceiling for hours ... in effort to maintain my wellness; I have to force myself to be kind to ... .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove to help "chronically messy" individuals around the work survive their ... . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid to really just dive into it since it felt cringey or awkward. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022