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• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year ... choose one place over the other, let me know... It happens to the best

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  . Being independent is a good habit generally, but it isn’t super useful ... can just be bent how you want it to be! That’s kinda cool yo.’ Cutting ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information ... to a few friends/family members, it’s worth it. These benefits also

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  Embracing Uncertainty. It claimed to offer "breakthrough methods for achieving ... offering quick or permanent solutions to problems I thought were probably ... , but I will continue reading them. I'm realizing it doesn't kill me to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  learned. It was my introduction to the main empirical methods that applied ... , rather than the full text. Beyond that, it can be tricky to recognize what ... classes. Only the parts that are relevant to your job, or that you use semi

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... felt like I was dragging myself there, then it was probably something to ... example – because I wanted to use this semester to do a large variety of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  that there’s some kind of structure behind it. Here you can start to ... of? What can be done to fix it?" Some of the most prominent work that ... enjoy about the subject, and I hope they can be useful to you in deciding

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  -out-of-print treasure is now freely available. I also embedded it (using Google's PDF ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close ... of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little ... 's a link to my adapted template as it exists right now, and here's a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  is its physical character. We’re used to thinking of wealthy ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... without lanes, fill it to capacity with rickshaws (India’s take on

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  something more pleasing to the eye. He realized quite quickly that it wasn ... 'm not sure what I can say in order to make you believe it more, other than ... for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... . It’s going to be difficult to put this in perspective, so bear with me ... exhibit floor the minute it opened. I expected CES to be huge, but it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  month, 'tis true, but I can attest to the fact that it IS like drinking ... program! It was the perfect time to use my “shark teeth” (which are really ... Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... direction, five slots were enough to highlight it. I even put “playing with my ... . Those were essential to me. If the selection still seems intolerable, use

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  barber showed up each weekend accordingly. It was our responsibility to see ... . Frog-jumping had a certain grim finesse to doing it right. You had to ... unique to us. We didn’t fear it as much as we feared “Two Buckets”. “Two

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you ... that do us good. It traps in and uses dead air as an insulator, keeping

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  it.” She looked taken aback, and I worked quickly to dissuade the ... . Her name was Claire, and she had hair the way I used to. It was a pixie ... (primarily used for academic support, but can also refer to other institute

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  so I'm going to try to put a lot of effort into it. Toy Design = This ... discussing. Digital Poetry = Using different technological mediums to create ... each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019