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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of ... never part of one’s identity--and moved to a place where this skin color ... Los Angeles, I took a Greyhound bus to San Francisco where I attended my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  house's communal tea drawer. When I arrived in the Front Room to find a ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  you face a very big decision: where to go to college. Choosing between ... where you’re going: switching majors, transferring colleges, or finding a ... choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• 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 ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... just a haze. Sometimes even months. Not months where getting things done

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  worries, like finding a place to live in the fall. The fact that our REX ... activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... 's a bad professor, other times it's where the lecture fits into your

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  'm trying to form a coherent story for What Happened. Where's the guide that ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , then one of them moved to the Bay Area, where he still lives. A few years ... working to realize a future where I didn't work for MIT Admissions; where I ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020