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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... the NSF. I'll be heading off to MIT this coming fall for grad school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  . “Yes! We’ve been looking all over for it. Thank goodness.” He dropped the ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the ... ponchos. We looked back toward the picnic table. Our tent was gone. I spent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  they seem to have closed?). I no longer have the stomach for it. Well, I ... turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at, although I have studied for a week to be able to answer the questions. I flip

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... formula for a given polynomial depends on how complicated the symmetries of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the ... arrived just in time for in-house rush and knew basically nothing about the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  close my eyes. But looking at that dome, I recall the triumphs I’ve made ... rose over East Campus, or even just remembering how ripe the world is for ... During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  the circumstances. I spent the last two weeks studying for finals, taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen ... products though. He also invented the technology for the Atlasphere (an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... having survived the previous 6 months. It's not until one looks back that ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help ... procedure which I did not try was to do one test for the listed time without looking at the answer key at all. On a real test, if I do not know a problem

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... "] Look at how much stuff is packed into the first three weeks. It is

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  . They've started putting the glass in now, it's looking pretty epic (yes ... spotted the Green Building and what almost looked like a giant game of ... shortly thereafter, taking the opportunity to look back on campus, darker

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that, I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... and current students alike. I think the best part of CPW for me was

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  -1pm, Hotel @ MIT The UFLC will be a forum for active student leaders ... LLTS (Queer Women Looking for Life in Tech School) Black Women's Alliance ... Janet '06 and Neera '06 worked with the Student Activities Office

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... decision. Rather, looking back and having that matrix warrants why I made the ... working when I wanted to. So did I make the wrong decision? Looking back

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that made the world truly mine. However, despite my love for writing and 3D ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  [/annotation] in my Crocs, pool towel in hand, for my PE class. The locker rooms ... wrong and learning how to address them. The scenarios we looked at include ... , and disconnecting the air flow so that you can’t breathe for a few

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here ... are the ones I REALLY hope you'll attend (for reasons which will become

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY ... foraging for free food events during the early evening, but I decided to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008