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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

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

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... to turn in your permission slips!), you're going to see the High Water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller, more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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

  

  traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... responses to the question "How many hours did you spend per week?" I tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... portions in order to increase my endurance. 2. Brass Bear Deli: this would

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling ... -year-old a short bus ride away. One day, while I was explaining how to add

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... stress fracture in my left foot.  I had to completely stop running from

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... internal hoops. In an effort to get the blogs up and running as quickly as ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... about birth control. I didn't get to sleep much (I only slept about 10

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  characters, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they develop in the next ... fetch quests in Spiderman, which really spoke to how burned out my brain ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological ... not translate well to text, was during a game in which they had to

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005