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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... that playlist. @spotify wyd. This is relevant to you because algorithms

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  hurt students when they apply to med school or law school? Thank you very ... and stanford. I want to do engineering, so MIT seems obvious. however, i don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  are typically people who know they’ll help HMMT when they get to college ... the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you ... contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  on them, you'd get to do an additional cool thing with these majors ... very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  I’d been getting, I got a cold from the first to third week of October ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  't going to let me get away so easily. She dragged me to the information ... poorer residents from the north side. Those guys sometimes get kind of tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  ) - so I didn't get a chance to practice before then. Disaster. My first ... challenge to get any noise out of the instrument, since the amount of air ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or ... ?[/caption] Ponies are difficult to sculpt because they have distinctive features that ... into nobility, she spends her days prancing around regally, refusing to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  changed to be shanty by pop culture. When I say CHantey, I mean a historical ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as ... " was a work song sung to coordinate a heaving task (like spinning the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... to proofread and double-check your spelling - and don't just rely on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in ... will be able to find a home here at MIT. Recently, Professor of Music

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too much detail describing this now because I need to study for my final on ... details about Mathematica, be sure to check it out. Today though, Wolfram

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life ... to a single white blood cell, lovingly known as Theodore. (Actual text ... ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... through surveys of the freshmen and the upperclassmen. We went to different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006