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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen flurry for Humans 4 and 5 in the house unless we have taken antihistamines ... vacuum is running and I want to burn up my savings on an apartment for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is ... decisions came out absorbed in the application process for other schools, religiously editing essays and looking up acceptance statistics. In the RA round

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... participate in a research project during term time. For me, such direct ... I learn in class, but also fuels my enthusiasm for science

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... while everyone swam ahead in comfort. It got harder to look in their

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  't write about the drunken wildness parties in the blogs for a few reasons ... get into an elite PhD program and eventually become a faculty member in ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... , looking at the last problem set that I ever turned in at MIT. Ever! The last ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... dinner. I've never done anything in exchange for all their free food, and I ... submit a pull request to get something changed. In theory, if there's an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  decked out for the occasion. The flags all looked identical, and the ... walked in. So, the thing about John Kerry is that, well, he looks EXACTLY ... kind of clicked in when I saw John Kerry. He's an important guy, and he

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then ... , because a person in distress can not give you consent for touching their ... something is an emergency, you can call 617-253-4481 24 hours a day for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... minuses in GPA - grades are assigned strictly by letter grade for the ... MIT doesn't give extra GPA for +'s and -'s) as As in science classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... , just got here...I’m looking for Random.” “Oh,” he replied, looking ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  .[/caption] Some Tips for Recruitment Keep an open mind! In high school, I would ... , and seeing girls all around school in my sorority. It was comforting for ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  groups. In the fall, we hosted an event called Cru Boston Citywide where we ... for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024