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• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  -mail within the next half hour asking me to remove it). You guys aren't stupid ... 're thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was sweating, feverish, started growing tumors, lost my ability to speak, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  about two hours signing cards, I resolved to blog about this unique aspect ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... each unique MIT experience. Not to sound cheesy, but you guys are doing ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that you're not allowed to bring cameras inside... so I had to scramble to find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  world has been affected. You have 48 hours to decode everything and find ... typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets, so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to ... have on the Metro with Chinese emigrants to the city. 7. I love the 75

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  convenient to me. It’s true – all the scientists I know work odd hours, though ... support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  meeting. Which was about 2 hours of me rewinding the video to catch up on a ... being said, mysterious occurrences have led to me not being efficient at ... -watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  : Learn to not care. See hours spent not as a waste, but as growth ... As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to ... believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or even year-to-year, but instead every four years. That a year ago will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... only need to send in your February Updates and Notes report, which will ... with your updated grades (your semester grades are very important, so

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  dedicate my life to something so important when i’m in a place where i can ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  made my way to Levi’s Stadium, a good several hours before she was slated ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017