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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  haven’t. However, at the time, my part 2 of my MIT application was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts ...   On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  microwaved ramen we ate last night while trying to finish slews of problem sets ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all ... way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... left last week's assignments here so you'll look at this and think, "wow

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  scores at the time of EA selection, we'll simply defer an applicant to Regular Action (with no penalty, of course) and consider him/her at that ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  you'd probably be happy at any of them. Your experiences at each ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• 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.

  

  feet. Talking to Prof. Reddien reminded me of this a lot. At MIT and at ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at ... you out of the way because they need to be at places. I don't miss ... outside. We go to a park at the end of the week and we have the whole place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  were utterly confused, now makes sense. and at the end of every semester ... call to finish up the last few parts of this problem. it'll be an hour at ... project we've been working on since this summer. and at one point, one of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  stuck on a pset problem at some obscene hour of the morning - watch out ... - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  total budget at the top of this list. Make it your goal not to exceed it ... on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the ... hours of sleep than I could count on one hand. The other hand usually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  communities and/or society at large. I ran into one of these opportunities a ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LOOK AT MY NOTION!!!!!! 🌱 my notion is very pretty. i spent 5 entire days on it so pls notice…

  

  bonus: my pinterest page for notion pictures the homepage of my notion, establishing a strong theme of "green" more of my home page! goals are just classes from this iap…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  ended in a bowl of suan la chow show at Mary Chung's this evening. It was ... relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005