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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of the "oldies but goodies" from blogger days of yore - to reverse the ... blogger alums. (Apologies to the new bloggers...) Matt '00: The Years of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the ... VA...being its 3:18AM. But you can see the space marked off with tape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into ... , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... Thursday also happened to be the night of a Random Hall study break, hosted

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is ... enter the first of two exercise floors. There are cubbies on the right to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the ... four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  (college admissions, life at MIT, upcoming finals) to the... not as ... rest of the day. Did the exam go well? Meh. Will everything be fine? Yes ... all the things I've been up to -- and there is some studying, I promise

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  organization that you care to learn about, not to show you the day to day life of ... and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be inundated with exciting possibilities. Much like CPW, you will be

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... events that will help you get to know the different residential communities ... campus that you otherwise might not get to experience. For the rest of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ’t prerequisites to success. in the end, you’ll be yourself wherever you go. mit is ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... 's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from ... disintegrate over the winter and by spring there will be new dirt covering it ... they will become easier and easier to find. One of the biggest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive ... -- maybe it's not meant to be. I could NOT imagine this actually happening ... MBTA silver line, to the red line, and all the way home... Unfortunately

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  design class that I need to understand the basics of being a product ... "]Venice Biennale[/annotation] and our names will be in the credits?!?!? which is WACK ... semester awful, I'm psyched to see the final products and be proud of all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  personal insecurity than anything else, and it's not going to help you in the ... applied or already been accepted will not be a Fun Time (unless you too are ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... . Remember to bring warm clothes... even our September weather may be a bit

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... will be launching blogs over the next year, and I'm looking forward to ... not related to college admissions. He also discussed how the quest for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  be applying alongside me. In the days leading to fateful moment, I ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in ... . When Pi Day came around, I was certain that I would not be admitted. Not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010