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• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , you can go to the library and check out textbooks for free. If, on the ... be more or less prepared for MIT based on the work that you have done ... token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... , along with my ability to boss people around and show up on time, qualifies

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Card and head on over to Symphony Hall for free BSO concerts; find the ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on ... document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... because other people say you should. Feel free to ask me any questions you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  will eventually leave the lights for someone else to keep on. Leave it ... lights on for someone else to maintain them. And I hope you find more joy ... to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... , my dream is that all of my trainees go on to succeed. How to work with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... max of $2400 a semester (Fall/Spring) or $7680 for summer More info on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... 600- to 800-pound weights on the ballast (“Once the rockets are up, who ... EC to BC someone whizzes past on a three-wheeled electric skateboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... came on stage to introduce the 2020 Ring Committee. They had microphones ... to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  switch to working on one of my final projects. This is for one of my course ... pm and I have my whole afternoon free on Tuesdays, so I make a plan to ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  internship the summer after junior year on a chemistry textbook to study for ... inequitable accomplishments on a pedestal, it’s honestly reasonable for one to ... notoriety for writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his Stanford application

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020