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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the ... the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their enrollment decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  logic but not the reaction. The author is trying to be offensive on ... rounds on hall to check in with friends. How was your day? Good luck on ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  've learned about how to recruit minority students. Much to my surprise it was ... ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  of mentor, actually encouraged a friend to consider it. I do not ... A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  deep intrinsic call to follow their dreams regardless of whether or not ... . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good ... access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not ... discovery, but they weren't easily able to explain how they figured it out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  decided to jump out the window. I'm not sure how he got up there, but he did ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the ... Crichton, and he is not that intelligent. He is known as Derp Cat. As you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used ... 'll miss this and i'm very sad about graduating, and i don't know how to ... pieces to fill them with because that's how it's been it feels like i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full attention to them. With that said though, exams have come and gone and I ... information to those who can benefit from it. Google Glass? How About Intera

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... , "and I wanted to to write to say that I think the final exam did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  defective for not knowing how to get around Cambridge, but she is not!  I ... answer them as soon as possible! How do you decide which events to attend ... myself. How do I make them feel assured that I will be okay? I went to CPW

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  realized how instrumental Charlie Brown was, not just for me but for ... sustaining attention long enough to consume [annotation note="This does not ... factor in play, but this article opened my eyes to how impactful it was to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... , but because this field is something so new to me and so not new to many other people within my major. I didn't really know how to code until I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham ... most of the issues I run into aren't about how to solve a problem, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write ... i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Little Richard's commentary. I'm really glad that I'm not going to have to ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  professors who were doing interesting research. I tried not to be too picky ... general or how to get one? (Thanks to Anjana for help with the title. I ... the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005