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• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... stark contrast to mindlessly lounging on a couch, you could try taking a ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... ’t even check that morning since my friends and I were going to a math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... to go to a yoga studio on our way back, so we kept walking to Central

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston. That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

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

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

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... I had a lot to contemplate about the newer stories I want to write

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn ... moving away to a big city, this actually wasn’t one I expected. I figured

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this ... , microwave-dependent college student to a burgeoning rival to Gordon Ramsay. My

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the ... held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... friends: 1) sleep—if you don't sleep you will cease to function as a human ... hour to eat, go to the gym and take a fabulous shower, run an errand or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015