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• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... "]current events topics[/annotation] and thirty minutes to prepare a seven ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... community. Thanks to my well-documented genetic inability to win a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... to start a business... now I'm ready to WRITE!!!! (If you want to see ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... become a professional female bodybuilder or something, and she used to do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three ... to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross ... .  also, you tend to find people at Harvard who have chosen to dedicate a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... still used to be a pretty popular hangout when it was home to the Anna ... was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  change that to write like 10 pages of our final report before I write a ... , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start ... This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008