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• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... choice doesn't exist, and you will have to decide eventually. the things ... choose mit at all. the things that matter to me have changed a lot since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really ... since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO ... to the campus!). Just like what President Hockfield said at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  meaning of the word love with chicken noodle soup and shoulders to cry on ... internet. I've worked with Petey on ways to improve admissions -- or for the ... overcome their fears, to just pour their hearts out on the internet (rip your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  has one), and checked the box next to “Course 8” (Physics) on a piece of ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year ... particular department is the best way to figure out whether you really fit

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  , though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on ... the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  lifetime. On May 18, the Spackenkill High School senior will be honored as ... presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... .   Because, people are the root of all of the challenges we aim to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor ... -academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  picture with his cell phone last thursday and sent it to me. The text that accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say ... looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... , but we were traveling as one unit) got to Redmond on Tuesday the 6th

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  -love have told me to accept the acne scars on my forehead, the low quiz score on my physics exam, the waddle in my gait. All of that is easy to love ... house is on a fire, it is more important to douse the flames than to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  the GRT apartment. The Faculty  Once the faculty started to arrive, we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... ! And Chris Peterson was there!! I invited him to hang out with the crazy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... ! In the mean time, the Admissions committee continues to work towards ... the news on the official and unofficial pages. Debate fans: The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  the number of lives it took to make these extravagant jewellery pieces ... , and while it was cool to see some big names live, i didn’t like the numbers of [annotation note="lol i'm not going to put the name here to not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  reputation on the line just to say that they accepted a specific type of person ... This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being ... probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  Story to Recite to My Mom on FaceTime This was from when I took the ... .091 Part II This is, again, something I typed to memorize on the way to a ... 'm willing to disclose on the internet. Happy cleaning!      

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  to taste (optional) WRAP THE DUMPLINGS: when the dough has settled ... flatten the nodules into circles, thin on the outside and thick in the ... to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  allowed to air out on the blogs and it's been really fucking with me ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve ... together. And the cycle repeats. I'd like to say that this is probably the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022