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• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... life, but self-fulfilling prophecies certainly exist. the classical example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the

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

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore throughout the entire weekend I was there, yet two people pointed it out the ... 's admitted student weekend, and Homestuck Day, 4/13. Check out the new

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that time, it's remained one of the most widely read and shared posts on the ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  four years, when it's Random's birthday, the entire dorm goes on a great excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this ... of the jazzy sound of this absolutely brilliant song she wrote and who

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... don't want to watch the video I do want to write a little bit more about

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

    Recruitment of Volunteer Human Subject “Alright, that concludes the cool-down stretches, you guys can sit down.” As Coach Matthew cleared out the jump ... around the room, MIT students collectively sighed and picked up their

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  am not sure if you guys have the same feeling, but sometimes you just ... anything especially special about the moment that you are in, but nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the ... of the projects I'm involved with. :)

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list “closed” and will not be admitting any additional students for the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing. But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... didn't want to be the guy who inquired about GPAs, or put my resume or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation, Livestreamed cant talk gotta walk

  

  connection is poor will try again when we start the procession chris edit: working on embedding the official stream, which does not have an official

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  As the committee meets for the final week of the Early Action cycle, I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up-the ... Guitar Sidekick), you feel the slow, grinding rotation of the earth tugging

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009