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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... this year’s presentation was “magic,” but it wasn’t magic that created these products – it was engineering, design, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  entire application as the you-who-isn’t-you-from-number-2- What does it say ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  , and it had been a long day. We still had cases to review, when a hush ... You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late. In the long run ... into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed ... . It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass. This is the only

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  neurons in the striatum -- we know it's important, but we don't know how or ... a very long written document as well as orally in front of a group of professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  /quirky ones. 1) Accommodations What does “new” mean to you? The MIT dorm called New House opened in 1975. This makes it older than me but younger ... . Now consider New College in Oxford, which is 620 years old and gets its

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  that language, so what does it mean when I dream up an experiment in the ... up and brought it over to me and it was honestly just so nice.  How do ... self-care does not have to be anything elaborate, it’s just prioritizing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  MIT in one of my philosophy classes. How does it go? “There is no ... will… think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand ... you. I know you also feel tired.  It’s difficult for me to know how I

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... how we know it. The elegance of science is something to be admired. If ... in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  reassuring "How does this work again?", Larry turned the drone on. He flew the ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last ... about MIT is that this place does break you down. It doesn’t have to break

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  how far this philosophy got me. So now it's July in Germany, it's hot ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in Burton-Conner, laundry machines accept both quarters and MIT TechCash, so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... how well I did on it. I really couldn't motivate myself to look at the ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... at exactly the same rate no matter how you feel about it, and when you ... just how wild it is to be here, living this moment as opposed to the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  have in my paper were results. Does that sound important? Yes, it totally ... -computer interaction (HCI)". Angsting over this research was a long and arduous process that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... , cultural-level consciousness, that even if it rains hard, as long as there ... na lang umuulan (it's always raining)[/caption] Ambon. The Philippine

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  essay about why you want to go to XYZ program. It’s unclear to me how much ... honestly don’t really know how much these mattered, but I think it’s not ... letters. It always surprises me how surprised people are when I write them a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  . My EA decision had no impact on my long-term future, despite how it ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... that means -- really, it does -- it means you deserve it. <3  

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018