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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... and searched all the counters and drawers for a key that might quite ... neurotic college applicant waiting for a decision. (Come on, who can blame

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader—Professor Eddie Farhi, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics—found himself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... , Alexandria, and she said she could pick it up for me, and I thanked her ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there ... trips were for Chinese language (funded by the always-generous Global Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... creative power. One night, I decided to change my major. I was playing the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures ... were three other students, all American. It was a lot of fun! So I ended ... tomorrow) to mid-May, and they will be all online. Through this program, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  year of settling into whatever “role” I play at MIT. For instance, since ... , online, for free. And I thought to myself: if I do cool education stuff ... class period. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Six times for six classes, for (what

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  rather than reading all the entries at smashbros.com some for the ... in Spain playing pianos filled with flames" but it messed up the ... 'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... can help you reach out for help when you need it and find peers who ... reputation isn’t the best reason to select a college. Thus, since I

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

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

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing ... . C: You had an interview and told us so (via the online tracking system

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  was not a comfortable sleep. Luckily for me, my Amazon bed got delivered ... year. i added the numbers for primary and secondary 14 majors, so the ... nice to leave MIT vaguely knowing". The quick rationales for classes that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check ... kiosk/bag drop for online check-in. No bureaucracy here, just a drop ... all? you may ask. In all honesty, nothing. There is no reason for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  strangers met at my blog for conversation, fun and intellectual discourse. I ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  Leadership Development is an online search engine for various leadership ... an MIT experience that is enriching, exciting, and fun. For many years ... “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  admits from Texas; I more or less got my wish, with a few Mainers thrown in ... 't happen :) CPW is basically four days of nothing but fun, where you can ... to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  -off parties, for thank-you cards, for savouring the moment... Even at the best ... break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  characters.Signing up for your account will give you storage space (an online ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... -do list for the summer.For international students, information from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005