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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  , perhaps I would not have applied to MIT, but rather a college that was “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was ... in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  longest I had ever been away from home prior to then would be my three week ... and their friends and it would just propagate along. I ended up with one ... of ZBT. Funny how that works. I ended up joining a fraternity because I

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... %. However, I would also advise you not to limit yourself. A lot of people come

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... only theoretically.) A few weeks ago, I would've relied on draining my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  —one hour til nearby dining halls would close. I put my work away. I pulled on ... how lonely college can be. I’ve also always struggled with change, so I ... of my college experience. I knew how much fulfillment and connection

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  get wrecked more than I initially thought I would ... 've really learned at MIT, or if I've only learned how to ask for help. I walk ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plushies. Then, when I was in fourth grade, my best friend and I learned how ... , I forgot how fun knitting is. It’s so incredibly satisfying to watch ... , and I really enjoy understanding how all the different stitches work

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the ... How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... covers primarily ballads and fiddle music, so I thought it would be a good

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... 'll start re-reading Harry Potter again to see how many details I missed ... I pulled another all-nighter this weekend. The last one I pulled was

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  When I found out Hank Green would be our commencement speaker, my ... Remarkable Thing captured how weird and profound the social internet is. I ... ’re obsessing over at any given time? That’s how I am with facts. I always have a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  're Going Down (this was around 2008). I would then go on to listen to and ... player and I really enjoyed these, uh, little dramas that people would make ... they would typically play their dad rock as well so I'd have some random

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  the raindrops on the hat looked like glitter (see how I just tied like 3 ... the calculations to solve the following physics problem: how fast would ... , notice: First and foremost, my super-fabulous high-heeled rainboots. I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... a few minutes before I could explain that it would be a lot better if ... Okay, so it's been inexcusably long since I last wrote here. This is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  ? I don't know yet... And Sirius asked, "Would you detail your process ... I was planning an another entry on the reading process, and since many pertinent questions were asked in the last entry, I figured I'd base

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  ). I would recommend sending us a note (no more than a page in length) to ... other information you think would be helpful. What should I not do ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  't really remember how I stumbled upon Wolf 359. I think I saw one of my high ... of watering the backyard and suddenly I'm remembering how Kepler ... why. I should have. It would've been so easy--shooting her a DM on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021