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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all ... , travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  memories". In this case, specifically recalling the day you found out you got ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and ... ? I don't think anything could ever possibly compete with season 1, and ... online application does not cut you off after 500 words, or at all as far

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top ... had a brewery/bar and the smell of grains would fill the lobby every day ... one of the billion activities going on that weekend, or peeking into a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  another leaf, on the foot, two days ago. It wasn't a gentle smack, but it ... beings who don't sit inside all day and look at people's source codes (okay ... whose parents have or had cancer. Oh, and we go to formals. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  must first read the email conversation that we had on the day decisions ... you see the students you admitted every day, and they remind you). So ... to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public ... data to the statistics file, where I analyze it by type of day (schoolday, non-schoolday, or workday) and by year (freshman, sophomore, junior). It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  , or whenever someone i knew joined twitter and acquired more followers ... ? or was it taught to them, and if so, when and how and by whom? i ... perhaps i was alone and whoever i asked would realize i was a terrible or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  are 12 units, although there are some that are 6 or 9 or 18 units. 1 ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree ... opportunities to travel globally, but while it's not summer or IAP, local ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  literally has no water. When you or I or even people living in Addis Ababa ... , maybe because a water bill went unpaid or there's a problem with the water pipes for the area or someone's doing plumbing maintenance in the building

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... day, the COVID Pass app got an update with the estimated wait. Last ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  dichotomy... because 1) it doesn't have to be one or the other, and 2) it’s not a one-time decision.  These days, I instead regularly ask, “What do ... blogs on here, the post I think about the most is: “Be yourself or create

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  who were staying over for break. we played every other day, for seven ... , and we went from level 1 to 4, and i had a lot of fun playing my half ... andrew left a few days ago. the night they left i felt so lonely. in an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  different days than they normally would, which messed up the times I allotted ... few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... heart grow fonder. Or maybe this is part of the natural cycle of losing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour (or if you choose to run, 10 mph). At this time make sure your luggage

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know ... January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party ... music. Every Tuesday evening, they meet from 10pm to 1am, along with other

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011