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• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very ... expected. I did expect/hope for it, but the deferral still did hit a little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  find for ourselves, a kind of an Aristotelian mean which we are always ... having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... first time in years where I had the time and energy for a project like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  , and I would assume a similar percentage for Japanese as well. Learning ... icy air, could not be more fitting for what will be a very tough ... This post has no central topic or theme. This will simply be a random

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange ... habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive ... good job with a high salary bad for you?? Well, as it turns out, there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... . I take a five-minute break to check Facebook for messages, and spend ... , 2017 I’m writing a short story for my final writing class at MIT, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  for me, I feel that all coming back now that I'm moving to a new place ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot ... 'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how expensive an unfamiliar grocery store is, check how much they charge for a few ... because of the significantly higher prices. Good for a last minute gift or a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  one summer through a program at Northwestern University. For the high ... deserve a prize for making it all the way through. ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... for short, had short hair dyed a bright purple that had caught my eye ... the backlash we got for wrongfully believing that we had to keep this a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... also had the idea for a plunger that would scream at you while you used ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  paying for a gym membership with your tuition, so you might as well take ... in a coffee shop.  For menial tasks, I've found heavily ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a ... sandwiches! And Oh, and when I had to go home for a weekend I walked from MIT ... 't really dark, but Clannad 2 looked wayyy too sad for me... oh and a pretty

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  school’s varsity soccer team, ran track for a while, fair amount of ... was originally red, but he painted it black, aiming for a “bunker ... that for a bit. Kevin is a huge fan of the Iron Man movies, and Iron Man

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  make space for. I go to a graduate-level graph theory class that is not ... computer science classes this year, but today I only have a single lecture ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our class.  This year, however, we had a record high number of admitted ... opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  apples (and/or pears) An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - swap a traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Togetherness. Gratitude. Today, the MIT community gathered for a Vigil of Hope ... their face. A reminder that kindness still exists. And for that, I say ... For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... ’s grand opening, my second reaction was, “Wow, a boba machine is literally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a pleasure to ... international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6,820 students applied for early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012