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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old ... of a variety of different subjects. Because of the small size of my school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... ’t say that participation will smooth the path for admission, but any of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... 's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... from the end of IAP:

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10 ... discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest ... ! You experienced the benefits of a superconductor! The giant magnetic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  Zedaph, and the continuous theme of his Hermitcraft Season 9 adventures has been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... people didn’t even know  that I was going through something. The thought of

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the ... playwright, who was piling boxes into the back of a truck. I asked him how it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the ... hard because you were walking too slowly on the right instead of the left ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... . one of these we sometimes call the phrasing game: where you choose a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free ... of MIT students' social interactions or the next Facebook - if it's the ... beginning, and would not mind getting a cut of the stock. But maybe anonymous

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of ... ) *Application of the Suspended Microchannel Resonator as a Biosensing Device to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... named him one of the 100 most influential people of our time. That

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  's a half-solar double that faces the river and has two walls of continuous windows (yay Next House! All the rooms on the 2nd floor have tons of ... . Good thing I saw straight through him. One of the views: My litter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord ... Filled with mystery and people I can loveI know out there on the road of life, I'll live the story I've been dreaming of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMVNWkCUodk

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... community in the state of Massachusetts and many lovely bakeries and cafes ... class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024