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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  (I'm lookin at you, word-limit violators!), handwritten recommendations

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  before heading in to work, I'm not even stinkier! Now, I know what you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  .): Admittedly, I'm the only person who uses this word casually at MIT. It's best

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  presentation, while Tony and I squeezed practice sessions and workshops with CI-M ... good to be deeply focused on something. I’m lucky that I could put ... ="225"] assembly[/caption]   I really do feel like I’m losing a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  involvement to the firehose of opportunities at MIT, I feel like I'm always ... all of the departments I'm dealing with are broadening their scopes ... emphasizing the need for more progress on the 2015 BSU recommendations. I'm

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  't been able to learn at MIT. If present-me and alternate-me got dinner, I'm ... , so I don't have anything to regret or not. Except: I'm glad I applied ... /feared to make, but I'm confident the choice to try to have that choice was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  play Basically I’m horrible at any skill potentially related to being in ... enemies and wore bandages for pants. On Minecraft I would stay up till 5 a.m ... ’t know. I’m presenting without comment the fact that I occasionally didn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  content. I'm flattered but, to be clear, the best thing I ever did at MIT ... manipulative because the Y-axis starts at 10K and not 0. Remember, I'm paid to ... every entry and tagging accordingly. I'm convinced that her experience in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... . Here are our tireless rush chairs YQ L. ‘16 and Eric M. ‘16 and our RLAD ... RHOP Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ="aligncenter" width="500"] i’m not sure if this was the final poster but let’s pretend ... subdirectorships.[annotation note="in retrospect, I’m not sure if this made me do ... the spring programs. I’m pretty sure I want to keep going to ESP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  , and that you should ask the TA that sort of thing. Skyler A. ‘16 I’m ... grumble about others grumbling. Olivia M. ‘14 It’s 11pm the day you took a ... a six-hertz wave on your shirt. ...They have come for you. Olivia M

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  they did not “belong” at U-M, a 66% increase over the last decade...U-M ... that is as broadly diverse as the nation and world we hope to serve. I’m

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  be) will be a breeze. I'm grateful to Burton-Conner for providing me ... shenanigans that I'll look back on fondly for the rest of my life. I'm excited ... unfolds again and the renovation is delayed, I'm at peace knowing that the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  to that.   ~ ~ ~   Now that I'm about to start Senior year, I'm coming back to MIT recharged, reenergised, reoriented ... . Yin with the Yang. I still keep too many todo lists, but I'm not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  . I suppose that this tenet is somewhat ironic, given that I’m a writing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  enough brain power to type in the code on more time. B E M no N O B E R L

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  in discrete chunks of time. I'm not alone: Paul Graham has blogged

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  immediately called my mom who was in Vietnam, even though it was 3a.m, because I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013