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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... and living in those worlds more comfortable than my own for years. but ... WAITLISTED!!!” i shouted. (in my head, it was an endless AAaaAAAaaaAAaa) thank

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... , just in case you forgot the structure of an amino acid or the definition ... and must be completed in 50 minutes, or an hour and a half, or however

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second ... . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  , different types of companies come to MIT to recruit for corporate positions in ... Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... for the "Infinite History" project back in 2016.  ... Earlier today, FIRST — an international youth organization dedicated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  statistics, deep learning, and optimization.   21G.038 (China in the News ... Wednesday for an hour, and even though I thought it would be impossible to ... energy and an AMAZING taste in music.   TAKE THIS PE I SWEAR TO GOD

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  and my friends (one of whom is in TechX) had a meeting in there for a ... ; FAMILY: confused alpaca sticker: my friend Hannah got this for me in Japan ... : I've been working with Lifelong Kindergarten in the Media Lab for over

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  music; apparently, it’s the “Balkan Dance”; and you’re waltzing in. For ... building in the United States I visited with 0-indexing for floors. "](which ... had visited me in Mexico City when I was there for the summer for

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... on in the Garden State. I had just finished an article bemoaning the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... ) of the CPW experience will be posted on an upcoming blog entry, in ... Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... developing Boston suburb with an outdoor mall. There, right in the midst of ... GiantMicrobes.com. For those who wish to own an adorable pink syphillis

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  microstructure. She has authored numerous articles on initial public offerings in ... worked for several years as a consultant. We also compared her work to an ... Student Council Teaching Award for excellence in teaching, the Sloan Career

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  . How do the 2 programs (RSI and KVPY) compare in terms of chances for ... same qualities we look for in MIT applicants, but there is no 'magic ... be funded for research at some of India's top institutions is quite an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the ... an adorable cupcake from the Teacake Bake Shop in Corte Madera and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  Plushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple ... an e-mail . . . Second Place! WOO! Included in our $10,000 package was ... . I am officially the Conner 2 authority on anything colorful and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  , and Brian O’Halloran, an actor most prominently known as Dante in the ... in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries ... Institute focused on recruiting international students, especially from China

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  also exist likewise in all MIT dorms. However, I feel except for diehard ... : in my 5 semesters here at MIT so far, I have only used Matlab for ... convenience of being able to type an essay in the comfort of one's own room or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010