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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to remind you that things would be okay. there's a small niche of ... database and programs a bot to tweet one out every so often. notable accounts ... valero-o'connell. you bought it on a trip to harvard square where you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the ... a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme ... weeks were great, I was making a little money, I got to listen to as much

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  steps a day) as well as to see my active exercise minutes and resting ... 't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  't involve converting to spherical coordinates and taking a triple integral ... and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... about to say that.” For starters, there's D-Lab a trilogy of courses

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of ... minutes to plan a lesson is infinitely better than none. And having a few

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  ). =/ Hahaha it's actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it's sequential by ... you find yourself bored at home with nothing to do this break, LEARN ... world to self-study (and also serves as a great repository of past exams

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a ... path I really wanted to follow. So I switched to course 2A with 15 ... (literally and figuratively) change and moved to a full time Sloan (course 15

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college ... applicant admitted takes a space which could have gone to another student ... of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen ... is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... officer forgets to transfer a mailing list. i've seen some success with ... transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009