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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green flower attached... it must have been made of something sweet, chocolate or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... we do."]unprecedented number of applications[/annotation] over the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  :30 → In discussion section, we discuss an inflammatory article in defense of ... recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... interview, and would like to prepare. Here is my advice: You of course know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... the math department, there are four versions of one class known as real analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... choose one of September, 2009 (1 gap/deferral year) September, 2010 (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  more into the design aspects of technology, and the work that i do at the ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New Hampshire meant that the experience of old age was far beyond my perception

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  offer me the pats of condolences and, instead, I'll be pierced by their ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018