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• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... activities. Another way to say this is: what you have done is enough. There are ... being disingenuous. If you’re applying to transfer, chances are you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  undergraduates are in a greek organization. And no matter where you go to school, I ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... you are like me, you never ever thought ever that you would ever join

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware ... competitions and going to Charm School. Some of my friends are doing/running 6

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  floor, so if you truly are unhappy with where you live after a year there ... -mail address, financial aid information, a DVD with videos made by each of the ... choices and then a month or two later, after a lot of magic happens, you are

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  favorite professors. They are all in AMS because that’s where my heart is but ... , especially during those weeks where three problem sets for my biology classes ... one humanities class every semester has made me a much happier student

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... process. Sometimes, holistic academic processes are criticized as being ... after turning on the Admissions Machine the day after applications are due

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have ... classes which are both due on Friday. Yes, the weeks before Spring Break

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  are going together (draw your own conclusions :D), so it should be a pretty awesome night. We also are going to have our house elections (drum roll please) on Sunday morning, but otherwise I'm mostly free - and when

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

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  resistance on an upper back full of pleasantness. Such are free massages. ... Housemasters and house government, I have arranged for free massages for Burton ... provide free 8-10 minute massages for Burton-Conner students who sign up in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  guys, let me know who you are!) Question: "How about how you made your ... where you don't know anybody. There are some obvious answers to this. One ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  in America. Autumn came late this year; the leaves are only now ... , full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about ... and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  or scout for free food or something. On the whole, my options are ... salad I made for Thanksgiving dinner this week) Pizzas (From scratch ... stuff happen, I'd definitely know that cooking and lab work are analogous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time ... 't it pretty? Lol. The next steps are usually done over IAP, the month ... year's book. There are a lot of fun things we added just for this year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... agree that those fellas are pretty important, so I am subsequently quite ... it is that time of year where the obligatory paper has come a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  three cookbooks in hands, we made our way upstairs, where we were directed ... dedicated to Laura and Ben Jones's Mom, both of whom are celebrating their ... are not aware, Barefoot Contessa is this unbelievably charming cooking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  major. This entailed taking 031. Now that we are on the other end of this ... vs. CMS struggle? The short answers are no regrets and it’s (more-or-less) resolved! We are set on sticking with our current major 21E. This is because

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... seated before the array of blackboards, the backdrop of a stage where ... !) and also terrified (there’s 800 million freshmen and they are all 800

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my ... . The lion and the beaver are more recent: I got the lion overpriced at a ... ’s going on outside his fishbowl. I made you an ominous video of Hephaestus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that ... program, but what we have are excellent. 312211. When you say a school is ... that are not engineering and science-focused. However, if you think about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  to mention, are copious sources of free food. Advising for ... 't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the ... Freshman advising is separate from upperclassman advising; upperclassmen are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006