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• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  felt inadequate, worthless. Everything I had hoped for in the past months just vanished in front of me. Gone. Ultimately, I didn’t make it into ... , you can make friends anywhere. Since then, I’ve forgotten about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  necklines, as opposed to 3 in a general snowman. Whatever, I thought. I ... paperweight!!!  This is probably my favorite thing I made in the class. To create this design, I collected some clear glass, put it in a mold (with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  chaotic in India (as expected), but I guess you can't have everything. And ... December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where ... interned in the city, I simply revisited the street where I lived and took in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St ... reaction for the nth time because you just can't get it to work... well, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... happened, but it was surprisingly fun, and I’d love to do more in the future

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  day. I can't remember for the life of me if this painting was by ... off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months – which is an eternity in cyberspace (sorry ‚òπ), I: * Finished 1st year ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... spent in lecture. I will admit that this is a relatively low number

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  immerses the user in a beautiful underwater story! I was the only extern ... . At some points, I literally had to repeat in my head “This isn’t real ... Management, and 3 in Unity Development. I was on the Unity team, and loved it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal ... , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... /news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1114446307 I will see you in class on Monday, have a good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  , mirrors break when I look in them, but that is because I am so handsome that ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika ... 's Big Island. ... Angle co-founded iRobot in 1990, not long after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  .   MISC. In addition to all those classes, I'm helping students in 2 ... all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon... ... . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron ... sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards ... tradition known as the Novembeard ("No Shave November" in some regions, or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... in that region."]Japan[/annotation] and getting upset when I saw my ... relationships was a bit skewed and I thought my uncle in close proximity to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  – and the walls in Simmons can be undulating and curvy. The person I ... every few weeks. In my opinion as a humble cookie-eater, I can confidently ... to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017