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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... constitution using only my phone. (It appears to be a mostly ... 'm on my way to hang out with a friend in the Rainbow Lounge, but first I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . losing interest in a hobby you used to be passionate about, with things ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... you. i used to believe this was true. that if you had set goals in mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  packing. I’ve gotten used to having to move in short notice that I don ... months, I knew this room was a place I was guaranteed to stay in for a ... , and I had to take a break on the way there. But it was fine. I was in no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers ... you got in, and you aren’t a worthless plebian just because you didn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... about a day to finish, but Paola’s army decimated the task in like two ... enough to be used as a bouldering wall, and the routesetters used the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  do a lot in the water. I was able to move around, fin-less and floater ... seconds in ninth grade and a lot to do with the self-perpetuating myth ... wishing I could linger in a bit more, nothing seems to matter but that. The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in ... for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... terminal voltage corresponds to a decrease in terminal current, and vice

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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 ... to add something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my

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

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  desperate to find a home again.  My therapist told me, last semester, that my actions were a reasonable response to the situation I was in. Can I claim to ... ? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the ... streaming capabilities and can be used to project presentations from a laptop ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... storm in our dorm. A few weeks later, she came over to a party with her ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  . Chris used it in the beginning of the year to schedule the first Blogger Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010