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• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  that I could go from here to 3rd overall, but I did much better in the ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in ... 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

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  brothers from Des Moines that went from not knowing how to cook to starting a ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... 'd ever want to know to be neatly packaged in an organized, clearly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -2016 season, feel free to get in touch with our assistant coach, Kayleigh Durm ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... was accepted to MIT in December, his mother told him it was the very ... bounced from home to home in the United States and Europe, as his father

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and ... you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  vibrant with life. Even in the rainforest, of course, you don’t get to ... Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  and defenseless as it could get. Weeping because in this incredibly ... . Classmates, friends, colleagues came together to offer comfort in their ... begin to rush over. I tell them not to worry about it, to get on with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... did you decide to major in music? Jenn: I decided to double major ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  anyone who has any connection with MIT and want to stay in touch with other ... to hear about how our year aboard has been going so far. Some pictures ... that come with being in a foreign country, like not knowing which way to

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... -dance communication-thingy/self-procreation/photosynthesis ritual to call in the alien

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  feeling it. In all honesty that is how most all of my writing goes. When it comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind ... nevertheless always trying to find some sort of point, answer, or solution in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  .C., but my meeting was actually in Orange County (well, Orlando/Winter Park, Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real" O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... for, uh, weeks. I eventually got one in, but by then I was too hosed to ... this time as Josh taught us how to use the CNC. Its blades are enclosed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023