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• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  much more fulfilling, than responding in kind. Sometimes it's better to ... Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... the fame or fortune to allow them them get a job, situation, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods ... called Curveship.js, which allows you to view a story in [annotation note ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  you should try not to get too trapped in the bubble, so that you can ... . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... .” -Antonio Moreno “Let’s get rid of the stigma that you need to toughen up and deal

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a ... acceptance we extend to adorably furry creatures in cages, the ones we select

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  was leaving my home, not headed to it. In four weeks I had developed an ... - in the doctor’s who had labored straight through Christmas to reach a ... smiles, and in my family, which had rushed to my side during my time of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and ... . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... just switched to Course 9 from Course 5, which in my humble opinion was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  in course 6/9 related things I'd highly recommend it, to get a taste of ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... sand in neat patterns to make transistors and other circuit elements ->

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than ... again, were able to feel as if they were in control of their own ... this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to ... myself. in terms of tracking music, I was too lazy to develop a rating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  joined clubs, went to events, partook in many things. But the activation ... quite hard and not allowing myself to rest. After our week-long break in ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019