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• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where ... electronics and decided we weren't ready to fly today, so tomorrow (Saturday) we ... , headed to Olive Garden for a well-deserved dinner, and then called it a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 'm probably going to switch majors. I wrote a two post series back in June about ... sounds great, I don’t think I’m ready to let go of physics just yet

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is

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

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  scurvy. I walk to Trader Joe's and buy a 5 lb bag of oranges. I google ... successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  're worrying about picking their kids up from school and how to buy a house on a ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

   or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... 'm back now, done with my project report, and ready to share my experiences

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what ... though you were waiting to see whether MIT would give you a chance. It felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  we can still learn a lot from the interview. And you should be ready to ... a point, then you should be ready to defend your position, if asked ... ). With the help of Kim, the EC Director, we sent it out to a diverse group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the ... to care slightly more about my [annotation note="maybe I should do a ... poetry workshop being run this IAP I hope to be a part of, and I've gotten

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to ... he ought to come to MIT. and he politely told me i was a condescending

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  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 ... they came up with! 8:52 -- Back to Kayode...with a short word from Janet

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I ready? Click to take a look!    Ja, you bet! ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball ... . Finally, I went to Allison's and watched Sin City and as a result I can ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... applications that asked a greater variety of questions forced me to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... room in Baker ready to begin my college experience. My mom always tried ... mental leap was a much longer one to make. Inherent in the word, research

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... 49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008