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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't always obvious. Other important factors in your college decisions process ... , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... have reached the point in my major where I am taking classes that are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... : About me: I am a senior who is majoring in 21E: Humanities and Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in ... memorization randomly in between) Me : MIT :: Linguini : cookingFor all you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... taking strolls around the park in my walker, my summer consisted of: Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online ... a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... in general? If so, please explain. Yup. Almost everybody takes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process. In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you ... 've created. However, rather than sending in the 8-page report, write a new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that was not awkward, and everything worked out fine in the end. Every once

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... the current or former bloggers have lived in ILGs, they haven't really been discussed in much detail. Sondy's post changes that, though. Read

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... time have a pool in our backyard. My parents haven't totally gone into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember nights when I didn't know a single face in the dining hall. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021