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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . And if anyone in our office ever advocated for a mediocre applicant on ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... your residence hall with you. You have a faculty advisor just like the ... residence hall and participates in activities with you there. What I think

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  with my friends there and perhaps together we will get a glimpse of this ... infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having ... for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first ... reviews - Mike's Pastry was kind of a 'kill two birds with one stone' dealio

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... abroad, the greatest lesson I have learnt and want to share with you all

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... . So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Mail Date: March 11 Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time.

  

  As you've probably read via the homepage, Friday, 3/11 is our goal. If that slips for any reason, I'll let you know. Less than a week until I get to shave... NICE Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... gardens, drove like a murderous grandmother, studied abroad in Japan, and ... headed out and looked at the tunnel system (MIT has tunnels that connect

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I ... are always moments when you’re presented with a decision, and naturally ... easy for me to recognize why I tend to overthink a lot - and it’s because

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025!!!!! ft. Veronica P. '27 and Taylor L. '29 !!!!!!!

  

  is Kayode, here with Veronica and Taylor, fellow Bloggers!! We'll be ... presentation. And many go on to become real products, like the Avive AED Defibrillator, which started as a 2.009 project and now is spreading to campuses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water ... was predictably cold and the Student Center was empty except for a lady ... the deadline. For now, everything is great, and with only 20 more days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  all the fuss was about. And somehow, I found myself with a brown expo ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a big question, we will set aside the case with a "MYG" (midyear ... students feel like a supplement is almost required for admission, but this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  vomited in their mouths a little). I miss waking up and looking out and ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... academic school year and the possibility of a New England World Series ... are stuck with me as an advisor! ;-) Seriously, I am honored and excited

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a ... later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005