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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ! Bite my nails less! This is a practical resolution, in one sense, and ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... “Illuminati” Ambigram that is supposedly a hint. Definitely somewhere on campus

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... ." Graduate student in Australia (UHawaii MS) Veterinarian (Tufts DVM) "A ... as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... was a special day. E.M. ‘20   I was working on a final project in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the other panelists nod in agreement. Venturing off-campus is a good way ... Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... time before graduation when a significant portion of the 2016s are in one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit, not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... (not even my family in Oregon) could access it. Then, magically, a day or ... looked like this: We had gone from 300,000 to 2.4 million in less than a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  each other. So like a background character in a movie poster, Harvard was ... herself. It came out beautifully. The next morning, we shoved it in a ... Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also ... for that and also a persuasive presentation for 15.276 on voting in 2018 ... (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  black-and-white figure in a paper, and comprehensive scientific controls. Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... drive stick shift four summers ago, in my pick-up truck on a two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021