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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in ... hope to start businesses with, develop cures with, or just chill and go ... , and the other college discussion board. It was great to them in real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to ... to cut back or stop working once they have children. This staggering ... quick to embrace the stereotypes that seem to have been eliminated in most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, “that over in the north village ... -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in ... econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a ... "work" things than I can remember or fit into this entry, but I'll try to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  't know how to do a traditional task, or when my predecessor was officially ... the world than I thought there was.[/annotation] At MIT, or at least in ... their a cappella group, or run an ESP program, or be in charge of running

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... Dabney House and doomscroll on LinkedIn while waiting for dinner to start ... the wind, or tortured souls whispering integrals? 10:00 — Back to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... confidence in the area. Some cool opportunities came my way: I was invited to ... (out of sixty students) in my research program. If they were trying to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my projects here in Germany, before heading off to visit an MIT friend of mine ... you were to talk to my friends or family, they would say that I am

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  already-known objects in such a way as to create new composite objects; or 3 ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... three main techniques used to construct objects in Life that behave in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  new music tracking software to complement my spotify experience. in the ... year, and i've loved them ever since. in october, they came to boston on ... songs; I just knew that they were significant to my freshman year in some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  ends the 28th at midnight PST. So if you've been waiting to vote, or you've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it ... much to report (besides my first oral exam in Japanese). There'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  recommendation; should I tell him to postmark it by Nov.1, or can he send it in ... call whether or not to send in the essay. But I can say don't be ... quota for number of students)? Or that any students who want to be in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  to 4-6 shows for each production period. Anyone who has been in an MTG show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four ... storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  draw in my sketchbook for no particular reason, or listen to music and ... button, drink tea, realign your chakra or your qi or whatever you want to ... in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  new perspective. Overall, I just want to enjoy it, take it all in. I want to be deliberate in the opportunities to which I say yes, or no, and ... want to do with my life. Should I MEng? Or work full-time? And if so, in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... to rely on them no matter what condition I’m in, sick or stressed or ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016