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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I ... , on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... view from my seat in the last row, and then some of us in front of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... 't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my ... bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to ... either obvious or I should ignore it. Quoth the BPAFOSIPIDC, peering at my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ) conference for high schoolers. -Ordered my Brass Rat! -Went to a college MUN ... . This is my third semester directing the program! o___o -Graded 450 SAT ... ...etc. etc. (my favorite is the Sanrio one that's going around, haha)) Because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  flooded into my soul: ernestly did I remind Katelyn of our valuable Facebook ... 't agree more, my silver-tongued comrade. Friday's lecture featured nonzero ... trivia: Various informants have told me that the back of my head appears in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test, pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... Iwo Jima with it. "Oh, hi Phaeton!" called out my friend with a wave

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the ... for twelve consecutive hours on my 10.213 (Thermo) and 10.302 (Transport

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... than some variance in my Spotify playlists, experiencing the horrors of ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... me make so many life-long friends. Being able to hang out with my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues ... grandfather clock has swung the wrong way, and I can barely pick up my apple ... Tuesday night was fading, and though I knew logically in my head, that I had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... creating my schedule pretty much the moment this year’s events leaked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  . Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman ... arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  's up with my financial aid? You or someone in your family should call the ... hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don't get my financial aid package/appeal before May 1? MIT Admissions is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  Lin wrote: "I recently got my SAT I results back (760 maths 740 reading and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no stranger to driving long distances back home. Immediately, however, my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022