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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  cats. What I did learn, is that these people want you to apply to their ... against college admissions. Everybody assumes this is how it happens, but it ... of deficiency. It has to be something. Isn't it compatitive? Chris, don

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to do on here is reminisce, I thought it’d be nice to share snippets from ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  is put on the system causing it to flip over and drift upwards. My ... equipment we have, so if it breaks it needs to be repairable with Home Depot ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... engineering is giving me the opportunity to use creativity and technical ... . It's also allowing me to keep the options of both fancy sustainable

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... want to try it. I constantly encounter people who remind me what it’s ... . When I called my parents the next day, I said, “I love it here. This is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it’s ... )... THROWBACK!   “Throwback to what?” you might ask.  Well the answer is a simple ... events we’re throwing it Back to the Future. [caption id="attachment_45858

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to ... at MIT would be nothing without my input on what it is like to start ... can't invent it); however, until then you will just have to settle with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to McCormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like ... entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  metrics to heart that much, but it is evident that I feel more productive ... course, work is more fulfilling if you apply your character strengths to it ... since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word ... to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post ... outside MIT is its substantial population of bunnies. This was brought to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  how easy is it to set up?" MIT has cross registration ("crossreg") with ... it. Crossreg is made easier by the transportation between the campuses ... applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... methods that scientists use to detect exoplanets is the transit method. When ... coming from the star to the Earth to dip, which is a possible sign that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  , and second, it will allow us to cover pre-orientation/orientation from ... ) responding to this prompt: "At 4:42 PM EST, an aardvark sprang from its burrow ... aardvark, where is the banana and why is that man chartreuse?" Answers to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  years that she pioneered her role at MIT, "It was important to justify the ... geared toward LGBQT students and their allies. "It's been really cool to ... major, believes this is because there's still a lot to do. "Even within

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  whose central goal is to address the question: "How can people and ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... it would be really difficult to sit still for 8 hours (yes, the test ... .091 because it covers pretty different information, though Sadoway is the man

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013