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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... that admission just means that you got your foot in the door. It's not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though. His image was clearer in real life. (In case you're curious, that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los ... companies, but in my humble opinion, the best thing about this is career advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I ... has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech," as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but ... MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  and its associated undergraduate major/minor in Science Writing. According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable ... writing major is an option for students interested in science journalism

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... straight up bio, and in which I had some preexisting interest. I didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  You got in…wait…YOU GOT IN!!! You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, [annotation note="or now, depending on when you see this ... ,[/annotation] so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  semester rainy, cold days made it more bearable to hole up in the library or in lab when it was sunny I got really excited to go outside and soak in some much-needed vitamin d just one more exam

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst yourselves below. As always, please keep your comments civil and friendly in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst yourselves below. As always, please keep your comments civil and friendly in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... . She's equally (and differently) impressive in person. The whole night ... sexism, and when we in the audience (everyone in the audience) clapped and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  MIT faculty and students to connect with research and innovation in ... students with internships and research in Chilean companies and labs. Opportunities are available for 2012 in fields such as engineering, physics

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the ... introduce yourselves in the comments below to your future friends. And ... early admitted classmates in our online community.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... let you guys know I'm not dead, Haha. Will have a more in depth check in

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... , admit it, that's more money than you've ever seen in person) While there ... things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... 's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in ... this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007