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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for ... (with documented process) that gets a stamp of approval from Keith gets ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience ... ...don't knock it until you've tried it. I went out for one last drink with a ... 5 seconds to look at something in a store window, and you don't stop

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  looking for something to do—and, to be honest, we were missing a lot of the ... I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... been rough for me, and getting to spend some time enjoying a purely

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both ... first collection of clear glass with tweezers. Class 3: Ornaments (and ... at any time during its creation! Arlene and I finished our cups with a

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  urge you to read with caution and patience, I tried to write a mostly ... ’t take off for months—and have my hair in a half ponytail. I can see the ... with the kid watching. The kid is a sophomore in my sorority; she looks

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CyOAO8y0 It’s a special day for me, because on the same day last ... look where I am now! …that is, soaked and sleepy with Entry of the ... the exact opportunity I was looking for. In my senior year of high

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Want A Radio Show!!! about Christmas Music Year Round...or Midwest Pizza...

  

  , but it is Christmas-y and proves my point [and all I want for Christmas ... midwest, with a cracked parking lot and is staffed by only teenagers." What ... , working as a Summer RA, making tons of board games, card games, and other

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... , and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  recited a part of it to us with a voice uniquely both delicate and strong ... shooting stars for the first time with a friend who is no longer with us ... everything for a little bit and visiting the tiny classrooms, we sat down and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• 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.

  

  of time with this partner) and pick from a hat a number that determines ... Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, where on each day we have a chunk of 3 ... got an 80/100 and eventually worked my way up to a 90. Here's a look

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... with. I'm glad that y'all are joining me on this quest and I hope that ... ="yes, everybody can tell that you are a freak obsessed with final fantasy 7. i guess

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... 've escaped that in-betweenness of young adulthood and swapped it for a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  rip apart? and play with? yes please! We stayed there for a long time ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  -communication-center/citation-formats/ for guidance) and include a complete bibliography at the end of the ... . For research, I make the APA citation of the paper a header and add a ... in a pretty library with some snacks and good music. Editing After I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  and dryer? For organizational purposes, make a spreadsheet with columns ... stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM ... with visuals and links. * The month started and ended with visits from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying ... ; embodiment design; and construction of a high quality functioning alpha ... on projects unified by a theme (see the theme gallery for themes of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  that time? Not really (See #2). So, with a hefty bit of insecurity and ... . This semester, I am taking 8.01L, 18.01, 3.091, and 6.A01, which is a first ... .[/annotation]This means I have to pause the dryer and tousle with the duvet a few times

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  , scratch-free, and equipped with a mysterious glowing button. [caption id ... anonymously about it on "MIT Confessions" (a public Facebook page) and 3 more on ... as "Positive" or "Negative" and a confidence for its classification. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020