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• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about ... second to think about the big picture - which is where my friends came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman's a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  class is located in the T Club Lounge, also known as a random room at the ... played before, being forced to start with "this is how you hit a ball" was ... "]HASS requirement,[/annotation] MIT is [annotation note="I actually have no idea how

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... joys of MIT. In actuality, I have much, much more to say - but for now ... Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  summer housing? What is a lease?  How much uber-eating is too much ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... , "Slam is a safe place." In some important ways, so is MIT. If you don ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to ... paperwork in a timely manner. Once your child is admitted, the decision ... the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... hour there...The boat leaves from Long Wharf, which is a ~10 minute walk ... is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  on a regular basis is proportional to how much you need to be reminded ... that the Coop was somewhere in Senior House: MIT is sort of famous, much ... Senior House, one of the dorms that is definitely not a bookstore in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... stay in the dorm you are temped in or try and lottery into a different ... our In-House Rush process. If you’re interested in how other dorms work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... be more free Having a killer final project When my exam score is ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  me? 6) Is MIT a tourist attraction? 7) How far away are dorms from ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  ? Is there a way to view vector and matrix values at each point in a deep ... bell curve in my mind (5 is average), NOT a school grading system (7 is passing, 5 is failing)"]Final Scores[/annotation] How much I learned: 8

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the ten students sit in a circle of ... evolution of media. As it is a writing class, there are about two essays due

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... very much. I’ve realized that Course 6-3 is kind of a catch-all for ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  - a free performance courtesy of some street performers - we ate ... where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... mom already earned a degree in Elementary Education in 1980. She is ... college to become a RN. How do I put this in my application?" Amended from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... awfully ominous edifice: But Back In The Day™, W91 served as a wind tunnel ... upgrades since then, and is now a really pretty building of servers and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014