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• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I ... . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... deadline nearing I thought I’d add my two cents. Disclaimer: I do not work in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to bring back our [annotation note="so i would attach a photo, but they ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few ... note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  . I realize that I'm posting this in conjunction with the Admitted blog ... believe in "this too shall pass," but I hope you will be able to find your own balance. Keep on smiling. I'll keep you in mind. :) ----Long ago

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I ... I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... wonderful readers out there. I followed them around campus while they talked

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon ... best job in the world. And then I [think about the admit rate], and I ... should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt ... For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... party, but ultimately it was decided all of us would be better off if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... , promptly filling him with little holes. In between turkeys I watched some of ... I sent him down range . . . *taps plays in the background* And this

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

   made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give ... confident in its future with Fukuzawa Yukichi's son "at the cash-box” (i.e. as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... given time, in spite of some deadline coming up, I don't fight the feeling ... Before committing to any major choice, I think you have to be ready

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  weird coupling, I know. When I was in business school I had an ... following the laws of physics, not the laws of, "I saw number 28 in a dream and now I see that it hasn't hit in 15 spins so now I know it's going to

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  , in a different place, and at a different age. As a result, he would, at ... a senior project in that field. or the random conversations i've had ... haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I'm coming back from a long day, I wish I could move faster than my legs could

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023