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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... to publish it just before Pi Day, but then COVID happened, and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  . Three times. Listening to musical soundtracks and singing along WAY to ... something. I have NO clue what to do with all of this time. I lack purpose. I ... admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  /Probably Younger Than You.[annotation note="An interesting thing pointed out to me ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... two problems. it took us 5 hours to complete three. as i type this up, i ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  1. Lamborghini recently brought this magnificent display to campus ... Strategy” award. (Poster next to car said: The cooperation between Automobili ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... dragged two friends to a book talk at the harvard coop, where we learned

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting ... 's almost impossible to tell you not to worry as much as you are right now ... size of the header corresponding to things of more subjective importance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... maximum height (minus its initial height, the distance from the ground to ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to ... to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments have one, from Discover Nuclear Science & Engineering to Discover

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality." John

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015