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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... treat that you could ever dream up was in this case, but one item

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... came back to campus for track practice with no other plans except to read ... season is in full swing and I’ve been kept passably sane by practice and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  school and was in a banana costume for his campaign for class vice ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed in the Alpha Chi Omega (AXO) sorority house with my host, who was also

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes, okay, it's true that you can just show up on the first day for any class ... , they'll probably find room for you. But my universe tends toward disorder

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  world works out here in NJ. We spent Wednesday with my mom and aunt at the ... panicked when I called her as I was leaving my house in the morning. But when ... visited my old high school and was the "guest speaker" in the AP Physics C

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know ... all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... ultimate teacher in my estimation. As if this weren't enough, he's also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... -5; this is their second stop in Boston this tour), Dave Matthews Band

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  spent in the previous month. And despite doing this for 8 months now, I ... decreased, but by saving more in regular expenses, I have more for those ... ? Put it in a category of how much I want it. For ex: "Really want

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  shift in priorities, but I found myself yearning for the familiar ... it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream school was Columbia University (sorry, MIT) because it was in the Big Apple

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... the pools. i remember milling around the locker room waiting for eleven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... ." If you went, you saw me and the other bloggers in all our glory. It was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay ... sprint across the dark streets in soaked socks, rain tickling their tongues ... cool independent living group located in Back Bay Boston where Isabella

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... into the cast iron chairs that were only bearable because they were in ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  remember having a lot of respect for what people admired in each other: you ... scenes for the study. I didn't learn a whole lot about the brain. In ... really knowing what I was in for. Either way, somehow I ended up here, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... -funding initiative for its students) for another idea they had (“like Uber but for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012