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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know ... discovery (assisted of course by the double major you'll finish in three years

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets the MIT Sukkah) and enjoying Pizza (in the Hut). Come by and join us, we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3 ... people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... around her neck - lost herself in books. Her mother was rarely home and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... lived in Burton-Conner (home of many current bloggers), and one who lived in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in ... student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... own applications. Once upon a time and long ago... ...in mid ... early decision or early action to a lot of really awesome schools. So in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and ... Campus Police headquarters, in front of which we saw this group of four adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... International House of Pancakes kind of sucks, in theory... it's relatively far ... life being a few BU students in various stages of inebriation. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... Police, who brought in a bunch of flags (USA, Massachusetts, MIT) and

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... . MIT took me in, ragged at the edges, with sharp spots and pieces that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified, with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022