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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  (I know you’re tempted to stop reading after the video, but keep ... the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the ... advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were ... can't wait to meet you guys come CPW and next year if you decide to ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... ask me about (i.e. "Do any normal students get admitted to MIT, or do I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  boston at night grab your headphones

  

  bike ride down the esplanade, bridges, night fog, ducks on the river, street music, city magic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... shoot (with a smaller camera), I spent a few hours struggling to fold the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found ... upperclassmen, you begin to see things with a new perspective and your priorities

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are three major categories to describe consonants: their place of articulation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... also places to buy food around MIT and some useful non-food things to ... masher. Drain the sweet peas and add them to the sweet potatoes. 18. Slow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... outcomes and tarot card readings can be really helpful to encourage

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system ... students to become leaders, helping to accelerate high-impact, science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  . unfortunately, i don't have my own car here, but also want to see places around the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities ... taken, take currently, and plan to take again. home to work [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019