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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... going in this discipline. But job aside, I’ve also distilled what I want ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  , I would actually have to go to someone’s home who lived in the area ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  that I would normally never do. He was one of the top chess players in ... everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to become what you once scoffed at. I would never be with a boy who makes me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  ." ------------------------------------- Ferdinand wrote: "i plan to apply for aid and wish to know how i would be ... factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote: "So how were those New SAT Writing scores in early action

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... bridges. In this class, we look at structures in equilibrium and learn how ... because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  thinking about my potential blog post. i could mention how i might be in ... head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an ... that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... work and how physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  would you describe what and how you hope to teach (in this class and ... /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is ... handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I ... considered A+) so should I send in my class 10 marksheet....would it provide ... . ------------------------------------- Rafael wrote: "How tall are you measured in smoots?? :)" I'm not sure about

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  You'll recall in this blogpost I talk about joining Greek life and ... love the sorority a lot and I love the people in it. I often go back and ... what I'm saying, but I wish more people would highlight the incredible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  would disown sophomore college me for this. But I promise you, 9ams in ... , which I filled out. I wasn’t sure if anything would come in the mail, but ... their camera, though considering how much I don’t turn it on, it would be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• 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 ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007