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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... Pockets end up burrowing into the ground to set up traps for other critters ... fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the ... ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the ... happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . 21W.013, which set up the way I wrote and approached essays for the ... I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so long: 9:30 AM: Wake up, particularly early because no class until 12 ... writing this just now I got up to clean my whiteboard, and then thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  vacuum is running and I want to burn up my savings on an apartment for ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma ... quarantined together or have met up for the summer. It's great that we're still ... talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so ... : good maintainers can make up for bad design, but good design can never make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018