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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the ... the best we can. There's really not much else to say. :-/ ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to get emails and screennames to be in touch with fellow MIT 2014s ... to make your decision (and if we can help, please let us know), but be ... place to meet your future classmates and get questions answered by current

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do ... having only slept 3 hours, and still having to stay up until 3 AM to finish ... you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  lecture (and other) classes, there are many places to turn for help, and the ... regarding "If I go to MIT, will I be able to do extracurriculars AND have a ... MIT, I would have to study virtually 24/7 and would not have a life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  , but it was the third day of term; I had to go to class, and, to be ... clean, or at least in navigable condition. To this end, I have a much ... came to the sad realization that I had far too much stuff. There were

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  much tech they had available for us to use. So many Samsung Gears and ... natural number that succeeds 41 and precedes 43." According to The ... Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  much. But there's ample reason to suspect anyone who's willing and in ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  up some snacks and headed down to the Cambridge side of the river at ... the riverside walkway and one of the many speakers set up to broadcast ... settled down, started snacking, and listened to the Pops play music from

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... STEM and liberal arts. In another place, perhaps I wouldn’t have dared to ... , but also because of fit. And the MIT decision does not reflect your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  too much not to enlarge, enshrine, and share it with the world. Well ... impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can ... . -- 1 AM on a Friday night, I decided to break out my art supplies and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... 't mean quite the same things to us as they do to our friends. And here we ... the millenial generation to social Darwinism and international politics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... day. If you try to comment, and your comment gets blocked...try removing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  because it would be far too much effort to try and embed 26 drawings into ... -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can ... I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would ... didn't know. I don't hide things from you; I never have and I never will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to ... I can't wait to tell you why 9.24 and 9.26 are awesome, so here goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  few people walk by and I wonder vaguely how much it looks like I am ... longer drive in college), and you parked your car, and all you had to do was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... heat-resistance approximately equal to that of the surrounding gas and ... equation that related time to distance and could calculate all of this. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  ) and I were chosen for the two spots, giving me yet another hat to wear ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few years, and why bother to care about something that's not going to affect

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005