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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... being in five days or something, yes? Yes. When I got into MIT, I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... time I've ever felt like I was back in high school despite being in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  invalidated all possible arguments against speciesism I heard in 24.03 (Food ... including meetings with friends in my Google Calendar. I also semi ... and emails, I have gotten the following nice items in good condition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  !) question you ask as honestly as I would if I were the one asking.  second ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  the graduate version would definitely be offered, I took the class on Jr ... AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems Test Format: 2 Questions, Open Book/Note Brief Commentary: So I

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  was and still am afraid that if these kids confide in me, I won't know ... should occur, to which I said that I would that I would simply listen, be ... who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very ... would it be and why?" Kumail thought I was referencing a bit he had done ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be ... ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  from bad, or even events from non-events. I would get so lost in the ... Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... MIT’s campus in 1996 as an undergrad and has not ventured far from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  then I would have just looked like a dumb freshman who wished her ... -nighter I pulled finishing a problem set I could have easily done in two hours ... admissions blogs before I even knew I would be here, or the headache I got from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of pressure trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. Should I mention the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014