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• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... was able to keep it under the surface, until I got that email the week

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it.) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  has changed, it is fascinating that our fundamental approach to both ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  . It is continuously amazing to find out new areas for improvements for ... remained mysterious, as I have had no exposure to this field. It was only ... professor encouraged me, I figured, why not apply to MIT? Honestly, it never

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  else, it gives me somewhere to go when I want to hide from papers and ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... centrifugal force. It's the force that makes you slam your head into the car

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  see, to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other ... success is familiar and widespread, used to describe teenage science fair ... 't know what to do with our lives" is a common mantra among my high school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ; his was one of those characters whose memory is always the last to die ... employability of Electrical Engineers. And it is best summed up by his former MIT ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021