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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do students feel? How well do students cope with stress? What is the general

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , and how it is representative of everything in my life. Due to a ... in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... Easter). So what does this mean? It means that we’re supposed to ... couple of weeks of Easter break. So how are MIT students faring with this

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  how to switch sections from afternoons to evenings because it conflicted ... syrup. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's amazing. Hot ... has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on an iTouch or to dedicate myself to MIT for four years weeks before CPW, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... . Well, I started to, but every post inevitably ended with a positive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... /territories using their shape and how far off you are geographically (or for a harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  somehow we were expected to do our classes, figure out how to MIT, and ... tells you how precise the actual resistance is in comparison to the ... words, it's been too long for me to remember how these came to be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  of how Leonardo wanted to make this gigantic horse sculpture, so he ... be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  would you come to MIT and major in French?" I don't know how much of this ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  year's summaries to see how the readers and selection committee arrived ... that information to my application, and if yes, how should I go about ... not eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  speak. One of them spoke about how the BU program had helped her adapt to ... ? I wondered to myself. I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like it. Of course ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013