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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom ... of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those of you who applied Regular Action have begun your anxious waiting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life ... all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... thought I'd been there all along, working at this godforsaken JOB!" The ... !" , and piggybacks out at a sprint. "Order up for Tasha?" calls an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -so-put-together parts of my existence at this college. The musings, the worries, the ... will 2020 throw at us next oof"]one year[/annotation] of saying words ... -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I ... food I go to the Ocean State Job Lot, one of the best stores for $5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when ... Allan G. ‘20 are identical twins ….” At the time, and up until about 1 ... misinformed about their babies, with 179 parents of identical twins mistakenly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... different types of documentary, from the classically framed interview to cin

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and entered them into our system. At this point, if we have your documents, they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  instead of 450 — they will be wider, at least 20 inches instead of 17 inches ... copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student-produced videos introducing each of the 17 (this year!) dorms at MIT (counting New ... gory details of housing options, cost, dining hall, housing lottery, REX

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  for 1000 1st through 8th graders, at least 70 of whom are parentless and ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  be considered at the beginning of the early action round - but it will ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  : - Have one of my songs used in a major motion picture, or at least on The ... enough THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: - Ukrainian - Italian - Welsh THREE ... - Bryan Nance (only sometimes) THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: - Coffee

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... you don't know them? It's a very odd feeling. I'm still at the point where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward ... BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  change myself at a fundamental level because of the crushing vulnerability ... them. But you, here, you're capable of anything, because you're so bad at ... to get over these failures, no matter how many of them get thrown at me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  .  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You ... the middle of The Metropolitan Museum. I flip through your zine about

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022