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• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person," everyone at MIT ... everyone here at MIT. When we say we wish we could have offered you admission...we mean it. To all of you waiting to hear back from other universities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  New York City partly so I could live at home. But more importantly, I ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  -dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks ... hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills, because of one simple choice. Living an examined life starts with the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... selection of friends at some random time in the middle of the night and ask ... they were doing. The result would be a mosaic of diverse happenings at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... is "Sunday Magazine" , which posts articles from the New York Times ... befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or ... arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge ... , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives ... ) completely into their new university. From what I've seen, this is an unique

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  department faculty. I also met a lot of new people from all over the area ... way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a ... hour of my [annotation note="21G.325, New Culture of Gender: Queer France

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... rivers will carry me there, and I’m sort of stalled at the confluence of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  sorts of other things, and it was really enjoyable talking to him. At the ... the intern orientation at the beginning of the summer because it was ... projects. And here I am on a plane. I haven’t been back to New York since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... time. The last day of was particularly hectic. The conference ended at 6 ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  choose your own classes? that was entirely new to me. the whole concept of ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021