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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

   breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a second. and we, the bloggers, will be ... a playlist, and go out for a long walk. Your air may not be as crisp ... good. And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a ... student at MIT. The design for my first piece A[R]MOUR, modeled by Divya S

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference ... like a carnival for job-seeking undergrad and grad students. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  satirical joke, they seemed to be obsessed with him for a little while ... maximizing embarrassment or inconvenience for a victim or target, often with a ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  incomprehensible store layout turns shopping for dried split peas into a labrythine ... . Great for bringing a crowd for a splurgetastic celebration (graduation ... (around 20 bucks for a three-course lunch), I'd rather stay at home and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... , toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... ...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... beginning of the ELL, we asked for a volunteer. We didn’t give any background

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this ... .) * Conditions apply. Effect reported for a significant cross-section of the ... . The claim is reported for a 95% confidence interval only. However, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  motorcycle, my legs exposed, everything seemed to move so fast. I was, for a ... easier. Already I was itching for a next time. I returned to the test site ... The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  goal for a student should not be trying to get into a specific college, but to do things most beneficial for themself as a person and citizen ... important the direction of decision-making is for students. A student should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a ... attempting to take a class asynchronously is a recipe for disaster. Every

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  content is appropriate? Organize a soundcheck and rehearsal for every ... noon for soundcheck, 8 hours later we had put on a show! I want to thank ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  agency for an ad campaign I might take part in. I take a nap, and wake up ... password for a secret wifi network through a mutual friend, call an Uber, and ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... today. I worked for a little bit but then got distracted because a ... and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  (which would have been a very bad thing, especially for my awesome $3 ... Boston sky lights up for 23 minutes to a bizarre soundtrack which included ... official MIT student, so I've always had a little bit of nostalgia for their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  . So as long as I can identify an intention for myself and be a 100% sure ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three ... reached a plan for 8,726,400 SOS that wasn’t perfect but as good as it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  -zero temperatures). I stuffed a few more calories down my throat, packed my bag for ... experience, that "ten years of Latin dance" was secretly a pre-requisite for ... there for a few more minutes, trying to take notes, with my pants bunched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... and it passed; it wasn't really remarkable. i wrote a paper for 24 ... celeste for a few minutes before getting bored. last fall, we cooked finals

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  MIT is famous for? It also needs to be named after a tectonic plate ... JR explained to me, "We are looking for aid in writing a mystery most ... putting in roughly 40 hours of work a week for the past two weeks. And I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  , a prosthetic socket that will allow the user to reshape the socket for ... UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014