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• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  , and your decisions are released earlier than ours were, but I'm willing ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  reaction with other components, or may be constantly degrading and ... intrinsic or extrinsic force that tips the scales and brings you forward ... successes, and I'm hardly any more or less deserving of praise or respect even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving ... junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  —here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you ... able to honestly articulate it. 3. Do research and/or work to discover ... career interests and my background, or which programs would be a good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... feeling powerful. Or -- and honestly this is probably it -- algebra ... could try 8.02 for a week or two and then jump back if I want, but I know

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  used to present our successes and failures to hundreds of colleagues at ... sexual health awareness or some such, and the chocolate was the icebreaker ... Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and

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

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitories and ten or a dozen men piled out, carrying something heavy. Scarcely ... Instruments Company and diagonally across from the "old dormitories ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907.0625 floor tiles. There are 960.296875 wall tiles, 439.1875 floor tiles, and 70 ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  group photo together and headed our separate ways into our different ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very ... , and make noise when you can. When you can’t make noise, or you don ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  because I was at Brown, though. :( 62. Get your name and/or picture in the ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  of me and walked away without an apology for his slur or his ... 2013, snow and snowmen were abstractions sometimes shown on TV or ... Earth. Or to share a bed with a soulmate for decades. Someone to love and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or yellow or green tablecloth. They all wear sticky nametags and carry folders ... . Focus on four classes and one or two extracurriculars. Ease back in. You

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  students whether or not preview weekend is a lie and if they should change it ... , scientific or not, is not easy and sometimes seems to be at a standstill no ... work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Changes or Teacher Check-In or Help Desk, and each of these parts has one or ... an hour or so, I left morning check-in and headed to the first class I ... one where we all sit in a circle and tell the person to our left

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019