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• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be ... as correct as you can possibly feel while navigating the complex

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  is, I can probably find someone to talk to. Outside of hall, student ... ’s great to live in dorms with upperclassmen, who can tell you which service ... great residential peer resource. They can provide medical assistance, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  worry about their children or combat fatigue. Can the Institute ... about, say, classroom supplies or printing costs. Here, we can ... clinical strategies), but policy makers and healthcare professionals can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  classes can be directly applicable to important current issues. WGS.151 and WGS.229 show that MIT's Women's and Gender Studies courses can be about ... , more here) -- Can foreign media reduce people's support for totalitarian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  designs ourselves—the only constraint is that we can’t be part of the users for which we’re creating solutions. So, for instance, we can’t design an ... my team is a college student). We can design apps that connect acapella

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats ... songs and we can be twins across the space-time continuum: Dark Blue ... I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  . Also, you can't sing, so you won't get a big part anyway. You got a ... Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... Brain: "I call BS." Me: "No, really!" I showed up, sang "You Can't Get A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... passed over the reins, on that low. I can't really describe how scarring ... early, they can start enough FRC teams to hold a local regional. They laid

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  acoustically explode. Crescendos exist so that they can reach a climax, not so they can be turned down so the speakers overload. Examples of this ... . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  here, although you can see it in the extra photos at the bottom).   ... rooming, in which each of the residents can either pick a new room or squat ... Malaysia, they can still agree about their favorite part of the room. "It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to ... lecturers sometimes can't explain everything they would like to. If you don ... the assigned reading, the professor simply can't go back and re

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time, everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a ... in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... to list any scholastic distinctions won since entering high school.Can ... you can really get a feel for the different departments. And they are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  , these fields do not have the best conditions. It's pretty bumpy and can be ... -than-ideal conditions have forced us to be better, because if you can't adjust to Field D ... sure to train on Field D so we're prepared for any condition that can be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... hopefully some of the overall principles and advice can still apply! My ... time, and you can be recruited into junior and senior year. My entire

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  blog, that each song can act as (among other things) a window into how ... . It can be a bit frustrating since I’m at this unfortunate stage where ... that anyone can join! I have one cook shift a week and get to eat yummy

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  camera lenses. This is called scattered light, and it can cover up possible ... remove unwanted noise from light curves, but hopefully this project can show how ML can help preserve the quality of the image data before light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  ability to take care of them. I want to be the person whose door they can ... bests and your worsts. Yes, you can be falling apart. No, I will not think ... experience. I hope I can do this right. I hope it is enough.

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  the process, but I just can’t do it.  When I am not a writer, I am a ... talent, new creations, the new needs friends... Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. [annotation note

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  can’t help but feel like i’ve failed, both as a creator and a musician ... students teach classes on whatever topics they want to, and then you can show ... through them). i can’t whistle normally, but i got really close to figuring

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023