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• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  include pain for being rejected, joy for being accepted, anxiousness for being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember ... , I had no idea what MIT was. It could have been in Michigan or Maryland

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  , a mechE, in passing, expressed his empathy for my suffering. "No, no ... So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  for my laptop and am in the process of reinstalling everything ... , it's because MIT hates me. II -- Yesterday, while sitting in the kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  easy, in that order Record for number of grapes held in mouth at one time ... ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is best known for its ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... or coordinating one of the most ambitious projects in recent history

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We ... 've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank ... precedes certainty – at least for now.   You brought us work ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... felt about my MIT application, and here's the post I wrote for decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however, we have a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to ... stored the file away figuring it would be useful for something one day

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... opt for absentee ballots at home. I'll be voting in Connecticut this ... election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  familiar face in an unfamiliar place on a long journey; we chatted for a ... fear that something won’t happen without me—I put in for orchestra ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  world. That’s my goal for the next four years and beyond. In lots ... In July we posted the blogger application. 88 students began an ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  favorite things in my room. On the left wall above (click for a larger view ... this: 5-room, large half: My home for the past three semesters has been ... most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... us do multiple art styles in the same video. and we also liked the idea ... relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  had some really, really awesome repertoire planned for last spring, and ... lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for ... House’s Lego Minifigure Hunt and the rest of my REX in my room playing ... as you can.) It is, however, my very particular plan for this very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to things turning a corner for the better, and interested in the ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway ... tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020