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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  enrollment decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... how he banned the last one from attending his funeral. I didn’t know ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  like an annoying process and I would save time by correctly predicting ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... about the people in my life. I couldn’t have arrived here without them ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a ... which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... 's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  has taken me two months to figure out how to fix my broken blog. I am ... links in my posts about the dorm. So yeah, I'm working on it, guys. In ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then ... weird. 4. Tuesday Nov 6: I voted in the presidential election for the ... . Turned 20 at 7am. Half an hour after turning 20, I was in an office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  in the class, as far as I can tell.. Anyway, it was nice talking to ... how you guys are doing by calling all 390 of the early admits (sometimes ... , during which Christina and I called our parents to congratulate them on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... . She says pretty much what I've said in earlier entries - there

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... electric motor. In a Baroque church, the organ would have been at the back ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  . In celebration of Blog Action Day, I asked him if he had any ... and spends three weeks in a village in a developing country. I will be ... throughout the developing world. D-Lab is unlike any other I've taken. In most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  was made by a Bomber!), I was convinced that I would fit in perfectly ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... -standing tradition. It's so deeply ingrained in our floor history that when I visited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... know that I got this blogger position through my really terrible quality, non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like ... Bridge of Sighs in the background. I finally went punting on the River Cam

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  something which would be used in my work as an engineer. 1.00 (Introduction ... from other majors who come and take the class. I know people in courses 2 ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  option, as kind of an experiment, to see how it would be like to take ... conversation with those persons would end up being about how we are twins, and we ... , confused and hesitantly, “would you happen to be a twin?” I replied, also

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... resolutions from last year…and um, see how many of them I actually kept ... with my roommate. I suppose that happened in the first half of 2014, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015