Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28 ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year ... to rizz' presentations run with multiple co-hosts and presented in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  this sticker as part of the (in)famous "how to make (almost) anything ... being able to express those realms of myself on the back of my laptop in ... were the Terrascope stickers in the bottom corner. The black and white

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’d also like to thank you, the reader, for making it this far in this blog ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... to us, and maybe something we’d even want to major in. Fast forward to

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

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small ... select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... intended to build upon good work already being done to promote greater access

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  -Man Shoes, featured in my MIT college application![/caption] When I got to ... neighbors to see Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage in a Fenway theater ... experience, but totally worth it to see those MIT references in a Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  3rd, 2023 location: South Station, Boston, MA currently listening to ... up to form a larger train in Chicago; today, they’ve got just one coach ... …it’s certainly a lot. Not much to talk about at the moment, since we’re still in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the ... . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  20: 9:01 AM EST, January 4th, 2023 location: South Bend, IN train: #49 ... , IL listening to: the jazz that they’re playing in the station lobby ... located in what used to be the Chicago Public Library. I was a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her ... In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... about funny dialogue in teen dramas Cami: A link to a crossword puzzle

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... Date: Somewhere in 2023 Premise: I drew some of the things I wrote in my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020, with construction scheduled to finish in summer 2022, two years later ... headway to get ready for the 2023s who were entering that fall, the only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... a stack of papers to read in my sleeping bag at night ... 'm participating in MITOC Winter School, and trying to extend the conference paper I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025