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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in ... all, they probably would be willing to teach you how to do those things

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with ... a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... .) Learn how to adult (Wait, am I actually telling you to prepare for college

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  much as I expected I would in high school, but I do go into the city ... disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... concept since last summer, in Denmark, when I realized that every mechanical

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  places. I would be stuck in a traffic jam, and my mind would imagine a ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... funny teachers and weird classes. I would have made all the right absent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate ... year. I felt that if I wanted to thrive in MacGregor, I would need to ... a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to wonder if I would have been in the 40 percent or the 60 percent. I ... living in. And I’ve even started to make my mark on the walls. I would ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... the (perhaps illogical) assumption that the guy would let go. So, I ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  classes I’m taking this semester, but they're still in flux. Instead, I ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not ... prof?” So I did. It would be an overexaggeration to say I poured my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  . I asked him how much the repairs would cost, and told him that I would ... . Marla Imagine how much resentment you would feel if you learned your ... a person and not an inanimate object, I think I probably would’ve been

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  people I would never meet. I am more emotionally invested in the members of ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... . 5. Blogs and more blogs. I love the new look of our admission website

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... Allison's new [Video Retailer] Movie Pass in hand, I vacillated between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Outstanding Bloggership (not in that order): I would randomly call a random ... I would include him in my project, which would immediately be ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  . we ended up playing a lot more in the rest of the semester. i would ... ="89570" image4="89577" /] i and cj would both eventually play all 8 spirits in ... pack 2 was available, so i bought that too. i would buy promo pack 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  .170: Laboratory in Software Engineering. The class website even links to information ... Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... undergrad degree last year in Course 6: Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... great. How many accepted students would actually volunteer their private ... I even have a chance? How do I know if I should apply? The former of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of ... Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , as I am uncertain whether he would. Therefore I would like to ask how ... faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005