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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So ... will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... senior year, I didn’t technically select schools to apply to in the College

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of ... So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our ... you burn it out You've got so much to do And only so many hours in a day ... Is something to believe in 'Cause everything just falls in place like

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the following question: "What is the most important challenge facing our world

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... - The basic gist is this- instead of going out to dinner, we’ll feed you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... buildings weren't in the way because I bet the sky is beautiful... and thus ... walked 19,000 steps in the process of trying to pack all my stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to ... , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... beyond. My first UROP project is assisting in the creation of the first of these challenges. The topic is Assessment, and my job is to create the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students ... designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  have to be SO much better than me in EVERY possible position that I’m not ... me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay ... for funding. This requires me finding somewhere to live in the next four

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... be fun to vlog the adventure, but most of the footage that I actually ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  work to enhance their presence in our community in the future. To the ... Initiative program where she received an M.S. in Linguistics (‘21). She is the ... is raising her 2-year-old son to be bilingual in Iñupiaq and English

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  actually destiny, and the reason they come to pass is because we believe in ... example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the ... , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... killer from the Saw movies, right? He forces his victims to endure so much suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is ... adapts experience to sentience the American Midwest is infuriatingly ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  entertained? There's really not much to lose. The opening comedian was from ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... oblivious to the world around me. Both are valid options. Either way, I got

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read: elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  year, the entire city is invited to the same party, held in front of City ... campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011