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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  ranked second in my class and I applied at several out ... of the reasons I wanted to go there is because the smartest kids in the ... how some people that are smart look down on others." "I would feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  of group B, I thought I had convinced my parents that grad school would ... biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... problems when it comes to research. I have only been working in labs for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  ride, which I shall summarize: In exchanging vows of love, Siegfried, a ... deception ensue, and it all culminates in . . . Well, I won’t reveal the ... subtitles (did I neglect the part where it’s all sung in German?). My

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... was a paid job. I've just always loved doing it and I would definitely ... catechizes: I was wondering if low SAT II scores would hurt me, since none of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of ... wrapped in a microfiber cloth. Most of the media I consume explores food in ... asked participants, “what would you study if you could major in anything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... semester would be fraught with drama? I was already getting the sense that ... thinking, How in the world did they make that in a semester? Now I know

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I ... consistent draw? Should I trade half my health in this event for some powerful ... amount of block you have. One of the biggest lessons I learned in ESP is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know ... -profit) in your hometown that you would like to work with, and make contact

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag ... to learn something new, I would very strongly recommend checking out ... I usually don't make *official* posts, so I'll try to keep this one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip ... Scandinavian furniture from your favorite importer... (I got a new bookshelf! I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... having to explain to her that she would still be well fed and protected in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... kitchen. In turn, freshmen bloggers, I need your help. Please blog ... have a test on Wednesday evening in 2.005 (Thermal Fluids). Uh-oh! I also

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... would've done something else with it. And at this point in your year ... 're exhausted. I was. So I suggest two courses of action in no particular order

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... serenaded a girl in the class. Now I realize my view may be a little biased ... people like him at MIT. I consider myself very lucky to be in the company

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  something. I didn't bring my camera, but only because I knew Bryan would be ... around. Give me anything that has application in the real world and I hate ... beginning to be a bit apprehensive of math (I'm in BC this year) even though I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  assure you... I told the people in the Minecraft Discord about our hype ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few ... No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009