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• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... Harvard, and I noticed they had a TON of the new Peach Pit Album. Like, way ... rest of the year! Grrrrrr i'm so upset."] newbury comics

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... , I was reading some articles from “The Cut”, a section of New York ... Miller. It's one of The Cut's most read articles, and describes how a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  about - just that you're passionate about something. The character of the ... people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community. The ... other words the admit rate for all EA applicants regardless of when they

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom ... 12.5% of our total grade in the class, I was not so happy about it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... old girls burn their names into the handles of their jackknives Getting ... I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought ... Entrepreneurship Center Entrepreneurship courses "MIT: The Impact of Innovation ... from the comments: Drew '05, founder of Dropbox, writes in: hey -- this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the world, i talk about the contradictory feelings of feeling powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state. Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is ... . These creatures are sadly never viable...with the exception of one or two resurrected demons...(‘The Gender Problem’ is one such beast). (^PROOF of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel ... weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... amount of time making pasta,[/annotation]and ended up dropping the turkey ... First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a source of control. I stopped eating a lot of the foods that I would have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... , it was about the future I saw for myself crumbling as my knowledge of ... took up the hobby of exploring the ocean. I spent a weekend with hippies

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation ... Scholberg, now at Duke, doing particle-physics simulations. As part of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005