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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection? The things I can ... . No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it ... the future. freshman fall: it's okay to drop things Perhaps best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  over to their website and vote for us! We can do it! ... 'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... critiques the video at certain points, forcing it to repeatedly pivot to ... students are also asked what it means to be "smart" at MIT. One mentions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... doesn't really like it when students break the law. How to become a hacker

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -gatherer predecessors? I think it’s important to acknowledge the very rightful discomfort ... adjectives would you use to describe yourself?” Soon after participants ... were asked to take a mental rotation test presented as independent of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  constitution using only my phone. (It appears to be a mostly ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique ... ? Sure, it's safe to get strawberry (that's what I always get. XP) But why

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’t have a set place that they can use without paying and instead have to ... . And it’s great to have people you can turn to hang out with or have a ... times and that it’s not a sign of weakness. She wasn’t used to openly

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  remained mysterious, as I have had no exposure to this field. It was only ... professor encouraged me, I figured, why not apply to MIT? Honestly, it never ... community can form in a short amount of time, it’s just a matter of seeking it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... you CAN do it.   A Penny for Your Thoughts   *Quotes that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  capital to expand its underdeveloped social life. Several visionary ... undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  ending!)(It ends with me losing all my toes.) I wanted to pass on some ... I figured out I had to move. It took me a while, but I got up the courage to move to a floor where I knew almost no one. And it turned out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to revise and revise and revise and can't become too attached to any ... hesitated mightily. But she convinced me to give it a shot because most ... /inspired to pursue it further. It’s kind of making me stir-crazy. But I really

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so ... I used to be. About to reread a favorite novel instead of chasing my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016