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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  your life plans or self worth on it. For another thing, whether you end ... participant at a hospital, which, to make a long story short, was like being on ... rank. We like to decide on a cold, hard, set of ambitions that don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for ... students and our own admissions criteria to ensure we make good decisions for ... students to pick whatever is the safest and most affordable option for them

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... defiance to a system that is built to oppose you rather than support you. on ... —is a heavy feeling.  as much as i wish for the goodbye to be prolonged

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  what MIT has to offer. Being an artsy person, I signed up for a pre ... where I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. To learn how you can ... [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  So about those flip flops… snow part deux

  

  See my last entry about No Flip Flops Looks like the snow has finally arrived for real. Woke up this morning to these sights in tree-lined Brookline. This week: look forward to entries on designing a wind

  • by Bryan
  • December 4, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  yourself to learn how to cook. This blog will give you a few tips on eating well on the fly, and will hopefully inspire you to do a little kitchen chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  's an art!) so it can take up to a week for you to receive a response ... 'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can stay overnight on campus beginning on September 30th, and since we need

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a ... 2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... suprisingly similar to the third picture on this promo page. Just lucky I guess ... die instantly. So, it's better to err on the side of caution here. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  and how far i have to go, and then give myself a pat on the back for it ... do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post ... the notes app on my phone begs to differ. maybe it was a fear of failure

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  weekday for crew practice, and I've been getting to bed by 9:30 or 10 every ... [annotation note="hurray for multitasking"] while I meal prep on Mondays ... → getting confused → going to office hours to ask for help → finishing the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch on optical frequency combs, which she describes as "so cool." Sadly, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  made the trip to cheer for our friends on the MIT Cross Country teams ... , and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my ... knives. I listen for footsteps and try to make my own gait a little less ... for fifty dollars an hour. Four days a week I lift weights and listen to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday ... paper and meet with someone in the WCC to get feedback on what else to fix

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... 's and 5's on all tests. I'll pause here to add that I frequently saw ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... documentary on the Math Prize for Girls here: </param > < ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT. Congratulations on your final decision. You are about to enter an intensely

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011