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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  listen in on random seminars and take the longer route home. Most ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... MIT to the interview. I believe that we as ECs are often the most direct

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... Charles River is in front of me. There is a chip in the sidewalk. And ... friends, Netsanet (name changed) is an Ethiopian born in the United States

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  on the Harvard bridge. T’Challa won’t feature much in this film ... operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to ... first architecture college in the US? At MIT, she chooses to live in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... courtyard is beautiful in the fall. Notice the Boston skyline peeking through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  use “I” too much? The essay is about you, but it’s also about the people ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of Programming," the[annotation note="Why is it the second if the course name says fundamentals? Good question! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"]second[/annotation]class in the computer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in ... upshot of this is that they end up being available mostly to the students ... other people in the department without too much background prior to coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... and decide, in the end, what happens, happens. yes, it is okay to plan ... truth is, happiness is perhaps the most welcoming feeling in the world. it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not ... things to blog about: my "blog backlog" in Trello is stacked deep with ... ,[/annotation] that there is a limit to that is rough. But it's also important. In my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is ... time, I began to strongly feel my lack of participation in the math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  is geared mostly for people who want to work as engineers in the high ... of the most intense and time-consuming classes in Course 6, is a course ... require the student to study a particular area in depth, which might be the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006