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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’ve grown throughout my first semester. I don’t feel like I’ve become much ... my first serious relationship [annotation note= "which isn’t really ... fact that I could stop working on psets [annotation note= "i don’t think

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  .  We honestly don’t know what’s going to happen next year. We’ve become ... for the reality where maybe we won’t get into grad school, and maybe take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any ... rejected so that the emotion wouldn’t come as a shock. I told my parents that ... would be able to recognize mine immediately and wouldn’t have to keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have ... hadn't ever watched High School Musical before. Immediately, we knew what ... movies, some I wouldn't have ever watched or even considered in my own time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  the friends who were there who hadn't read the books before (like Rona ... compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have ... , except for this one, you don't need to bother you mom to find your birth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  made me so quintessentially me. We know that this isn't easy, but we hope

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn't ... all the little things about cambridge and boston i didn't even know i ... friends. (it's refreshing to hang out with people that don't go to mit.) i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  things happen to people who don't verify they will receive their decision

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

   beforehand. If you haven’t visited MIT before, let me warn you (as I wish someone ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  much longer. Time doesn’t flow at its normal rate when everything around ... , the tallest dorm on MIT’s dorm row. MacG isn’t the most exciting dorm on ... becomes familiar once you’ve taken 543714 steps. Or maybe it isn’t. That’s a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  can use the Disqus login or comment as an anonymous guest. Just don't be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  kind, and teaches me so many things that I don’t even know how to start ... . They are my cheerleaders and my muses, and I can’t imagine who I’d be ... Catron muses, “But I see now that the story isn’t about us; it’s about what

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  people if that wasn’t clear yet. The first step was figuring out how to ... looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... (like how the if statement on line 555 is filtering out the words with 't

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the ... though I did not attend them and can’t talk from experience, I encourage ... . Also, don’t be like me and buy so much stuff in the coop that your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  won't be miserable like a senior taking 7.012. You might even enjoy it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  sophomore, I already feel like there are so many meme references I don’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For ... that they don't have their merits too), the teacher has mixed in history

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  starters, I wasn’t in a huge lecture hall filled with hundreds of people. It seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don’t ... through a very enthusiastic presentation of the material. I can’t finish

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  . Tea with lunch was an oddity that didn’t escape the careful gaze of my ... guess they have a point. Day 11: Teaching is hard! I don’t think I ... harder to deal with when you don’t speak their language. The challenge on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  making something that is difficult (and shouldn't be) easier by partnering ... expressed interest but couldn’t wait in the long lines to our table. We didn’t ... Center, implemented by the Registrar and IS&T, and promoted by the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  : Collect 60 free t-shirts. I’m expecting this to be one of the easier ones. I ... ’m a likely Course 6-3 (that’s computer science in MITese), but I don’t ... : survive the winter in just a t-shirt and basketball shorts, like most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017