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• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story ... people down. To watch mamma Mia tn in main lounge. [5:46 PM] Nicole H. '22 ... single mother and hotel owner, Donna, is about to get married. Sophie has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... gigantic carry-ons into the opposite overhead compartment, you have to get up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... every passing day here at MIT — how to not beat myself up over turning in ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and I'll get to it soon. ------------------------------------- M.D. wrote ... recommend getting materials to us by early February, and Midyear Grade Report

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... in physics party pad. We used all this space to watch TV vigorously and ... interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I hadn't considered how to get them over my butt. Awkward. I sat ... trickled in, and sat down. Ashley welcomed us to the course, and explained ... get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  every Thursday afternoon in the absolute closest possible classroom to my ... took Saturday and Sunday to relax, I spent the “holiday” in D.C. to take ... other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... get to choose whether or not they’re going to be the person they are, or ... ’s important to see the people you look up to engage in self-compassion. I know a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020