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• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  date that you can take is in January. Just because I care, here is the ... applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in ... 's Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) in April (or vice versa). I'm pretty sure they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... very video unfriendly shirt in this vodcast! (you've been warned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been heavily involved. In fact, I'd like to officially propose that MIT move this ... has even influenced two major decisions in my life as of late. 1) I

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

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  . PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my ... in less than twenty four hours... Doesn't it just make you wish you could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... until I was nauseous at [annotation note="all you can eat sushi place that ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... here. Unfortunately I can only mention in passing that the president of ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position ... folders. i've learned many wording tricks to use in emails to get points ... keep a meeting going. i've learned that meetings can get filled with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  'm Snively, I graduated in 2011 (MechE) and have just completed my first year ... whether you'd like to contribute.  I make an appearance in the video at 3 ... Wits is an awesome example of a place you can work after you graduate, I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology ... My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... ), was a particularly important figure in my freshman year. I, at the time ... and I wanted to hit the throttle. In the off-chance that Stephen finds

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  Weekend. You might ask, so selection is over, why can't I have my decision ... On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now ... on Google image search. I hope nobody walking by can see the computer ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014