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• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... comforting to any of you right now. But if you get nothing else out of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... had a feeling I was going to get rejected and I didn't want to give them ... for things I want. But if I ever want to get to anywhere meaningful, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a preliminary design to get feedback on. [carousel image1="116775" image2 ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  with the authors of our features. I think we'll be able to get there in ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow ... week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... feel like a different person. not to be a nerd but in my research there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... ” education I originally thought I would get. I’m very lucky to be able to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  scholarship foundation in Boston. (Note to any anxious soon-to ... scholarship, getting to know them, and talking to them about college. The only problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... choice, but since I hadn't had time to get my pants [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... research, MIT, and life in general. One digression led to a conversation on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... 's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might ... more). Furthermore, I am not incredibly confident in my ability to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... , despite being amazingly prepared to bask in the sunshine of the West Coast ... 's student printing and copying service hub. I have come down here to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... -trained architect and long-time interviewer in Manhattan. Larry also has ties to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , or, in some cases, freshman year.  The differences meant little to me then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  very sensitive to subtle differences in bright objects would be overwhelming; it's more important to be sensitive to subtle differences in dark ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... feels that pit of dread drop in their stomach as things get worse and ... way back to the States near the end of week 3 after a few days in Japan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office ... major projects in order to split up important work and keep the product ... learned in classes, but hadn’t had the chance to utilize on my own. It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  hold the jump button to jump higher. You can move while in the air. You ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... 've ever heard in a video game, with apologies to Undertale and Ace Attorney

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020