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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure out who I am. I don't need to assimilate tons of information accumulated ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  most recent trip to Daily Table. You can also follow their much prettier ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  [annotation note="I think everybody needs to take this class"]17 ... try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... often as you want. However, once you submit your regular registration, you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  how to cry. MIT has changed me, yes. But not maybe as much as you ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  be graduated.” And once he was “required to explain absence from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... ’m around people for long periods of time and need to spend a sizable amount ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... did not want to win this year. Much that we had losecomm, a whole ... To..., ❤️ & ☮️, and Does Any Kid Still Do This Anymore? I passed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... true. I really need to do laundry, which means that all my usual shirts

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... motivate myself to care about what I’m learning when there’s just so much ... constant tab of how much time I have left to finish an assignment before I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  unexpected four-figure bill shrouded in paperwork that needed to be paid ASAP ... enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it ... happened all at once in the 16.07 classroom. We choose to go to the moon ... Cube’s cameras need to point towards the ocean. To point its cameras at the ocean

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... much as I wanted to. Have you packed your things? Not as much as I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT ... too busy trying not to drink too much chlorine. Ultimately, on a purely ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... carefully crafted prose, while others take a much more casual approach to ... colleagues, Bintou (thanks Bintou!). It’s been a go-to spot whenever I need a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... need to be, a place I like being. It's trying to find the optimal balance ... history as contingency is too much for the human spirit to bear. And yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016