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• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy, really good dessert place), which would be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go ... felt like I knew what I was walking into when I decided to go to a school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious ... bizarre than Naked Abe Lincoln. 11:17pm: I call Rebecca to ask a question about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... ’t even check that morning since my friends and I were going to a math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That ... to have such a great second-family who has spent the past week

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn ... moving away to a big city, this actually wasn’t one I expected. I figured

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the ... held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... friends: 1) sleep—if you don't sleep you will cease to function as a human ... hour to eat, go to the gym and take a fabulous shower, run an errand or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011