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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  long bao (小籠包) in Shanghai. 2. As I grasped onto the engine of the ... which forms between the mountains - you can see a bit of it in the picture ... sometimes (it's really hardcore, I can't take in anything from the outside

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk about this without getting in trouble, but frankly I'm tired of being ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  danger of hurting him/herself or others, I couldn't in good conscience ... happen? I have heard of other schools using information found online to ... discipline of current students. I don't know enough to say outright that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  can come up with by the time of the next Omnibus, which I hope to do in ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions ... semester classes, so I quickly ran out of room there (and maybe in a couple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping ... worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period ... performances (people litter a lot in cities; MIT also seems to be littered with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  date it feels like i've missed months of my own life, stuck in a haze of ... agreeing to too much. I realized that what I needed was some kind of line in ... , I have approximately 25 hours of unscheduled, not-asleep time in total

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... .01: Classical Mechanics. (Should I be linking to 8.01t or the 8.01 in lecture ... of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  medieval literature in a game of pixilated world domination. And I can say ... department. It was in this class that I met that venerable professor of ... can always match those liberal arts majors fact for fact in terms of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  , as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few ... March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely ... were planning on going there. however, a lot of people in my group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking ... parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you'll take advantage of the Parent Lounge. The Parent Lounge will be in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Back" stood above the rest of the four-hour production. Though I'm going ... have already claimed the title of "best joke in the world." It's was so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... reputation for melodrama, but in retrospect, I think that this magnification of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... inspiring speakers. Some of the speakers I saw: Freeman Hrabowski, President ... of the conference, Ben and I gave our presentation about -- what else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head. Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... that there was a big oil spill in southern Montana, and all of the hotels ... largest city (pop 55k) in the state and located near its geographic center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  all the work, in the margin of the page I wrote something like, this ... my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006