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• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  uncertainty, in itself, is psychologically agonizing. Patience is a rare virtue ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high ... projects, [CrowdMath] will give advanced high school students a free

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny ... world that Tartt created in the book, and the ease with which is sucked me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But ... . Driving in Boston is terrifying. But this year, I finally ran out of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , she is spending a couple of weeks in Korea with family before heading ... knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures ... Training is a mandatory program that cadets usually attend the summer after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... here: Is a partridge in a pear tree affordable? (Patty noted that, in ... ) Senegalese drumming (sabar) ensemble that began almost a decade ago, and is led

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest ... insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to ... . What I do have, however, is an insatiable desire for free goodies and t

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a ... the area, and then having a better experience, which is great. but some ... experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , that's a pretty good school too. I don't know how much college reputation ... , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... a small, noncompetitive high school? I'm a little worried about how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In ... are wonderful, but Mohammed (not sure if that's how his named is spelled

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  pandemic, and that i stagnated while living in a house with the same six people for my whole sophomore year. when i remember how much i respected ... -person as a non-junior is causing a bit of a resurgence. somehow, the more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  stake in the whole thing is general mechanical design, specifically as it ... -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work from 0200-1600 one day, or 0900-1700 the next. So if work is so much fun

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... most you can do is two majors and two minors. How easy/difficult a double is depends on several factors. 1. How much AP/transfer credit you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun ... undergrad in a sea of four thousand. Even all of us bloggers put together are ... it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this ... ... A petrified log! Because I'm too lazy to explain what it is. On ... Lin and Mike He in it this would be a surefire hit, but while the middle

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... farthest reaches to go here. Little Big Diner is located in Newton, a fairly ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  plan for IAP. Since food is expensive, and cooking food takes a while, I wanted to try an experiment in Soylent, a meal replacement shake. I first ... in the fraternity, I went to a nearby IKEA for furniture shopping. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting ... little else, and perhaps this is why I jogged about a mile before realizing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  the dorm. For about a week, the pile is a free-for-all; any student can ... , I've had a great time in Simmons this past year (and there are more than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008