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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  awesome universities in this country you can go to other than MIT, Stanford ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back! (And maybe the return of m_quinn but hopefully not.) So, in usual

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold ... the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer for you! Sure, students have less time for books in college, but we don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... tables. In the "Student Startup Spotlight" were entrepreneurs from Bentley

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... , could be acquired in a variety of stores, some of them nearby, some not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  hours in rain or shine (or the occasional snowstorm), but I wouldn’t have ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have played seven competitive sports. In my three years of American high school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks ... ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... sophomore double majoring in [annotation note="Computer science and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  workshops in creating different marks using our supplies, which offered me a ... got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people ... then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And ... ). There are several exits on this aircraft. In order to make this trip more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure, the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  offer an interview to every student in China; many students' interviews ... date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there may still be documents mailed in late October that have not yet been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008