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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  : I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  I was your age, we didn't have any official release date to count down to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  apply to your own life and how you want your college experience to go ... academia. These economists try to deeply understand how the world works, but ... , pushed me to grow, and helped me define how I go through the world. I care

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  .031, elements of software construction, dubbed as how not to get fired in industry. later i mention 6.006, introduction to algorithms, dubbed as how to pass ... fun place to work. how would you describe the way people work together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  cannot express how pleased I was to gaze upon the MIT family and see a ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... had when you came to MIT. 2. What the majors are and how much they ... did to you, but if getting into MIT was his whole life as you say how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is ... I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  . But after a while I felt like I didn’t know anymore how to distinguish ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  lives. notice how your fingers can’t make the same motions they used to be ... this paradigm is to plan ahead of time for how you’ll address an issue ... to how i felt about the present and the upcoming future, i’d learned to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  crisis. How was I expected to make a decision without exploring all of the ... about my major choice dilemma: about how I wanted to help people ... he told me to make him my advisor. ! Funny how things work out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels under building 66. Then, augmented reality animations were added to some

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  styrofoam balls to see how many backscattered. 1:37 PM: Throw like a girl ... back hurts. Attempt to go back to sleep. 9:32 AM: Attempt to go back to ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  leaps and bounds in front of others in their fields. They know how to slam ... inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... you ever wanted to know what someone was thinking when they met you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  challenge, and I still want one. But I want to focus on learning how to solve ... , temperate weather of Boston? How's family? Your brother still asking you to ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  limited set of lines. Learning how to distill the complicated human form ... exactly where I want it to be. I peek at Deelia's sketchbook and notice how ... piles up and I get hosed. I know how to make bold strokes; I just need to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... mention a PowerPoint presentation to the lab professor, how often do you ... hard is it to write the research paper? How long does it take? When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI ... than one and I won't know how to respond to the labs I don't join ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  ...I struggle. But I constantly amaze myself at how I manage to pull it off anyway ... . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  was ranting to me about how stressed the workload was making him, and so ... college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  pack. They don’t know how to push themselves to the point of discomfort ... brag about how they never have to study or go to recitations or lectures ... In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013