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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties. We had some reports from the New York City party. Michael wrote, The ... was unscheduled, but that made it all the more better. For example, Les

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  international students.   As you can see by the photos, this was a grueling ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out there, the shiitake mushroom of the matter). Here are some of the things

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that ... also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  -disciplinary, flexible, and engaged with the larger world in ways many other departments are not. For the curious: "DUSP EXPLORER is an online, interactive ... projects intersect with each other and connect with the central themes of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of you were. But there's so much I don't agree with about the AP system

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  ’m not doing enough. i hate the thought that if i tell them i have this ... written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first ... they aren't officially frosh until convocation, the international ... to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster ... doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in the UK, by starting new Middle School teams - the idea is that these kids will become the High Schoolers that start or join High School teams

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... (nothing) Good morning! The inevitable has occurred; our train is now running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so. Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  Hi folks, Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or two. I apologize in advance to the folks who have ... answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... with our newly enrolled class through a number of events over the next week. Tonight I'll be at a welcome dinner for students in FLIPOP, the new

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of days, relying on WILG’s resident Course 17s to explain to me the riots

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT around the time you were born) is told that the most important thing he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  the Spanish grind, baby!! I am very excited for this class, especially ... things. CMS.616 - Games and Culture; A class that talks about the impact of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021