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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. Don't

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

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  all, we don't consider international applicants in Early Action. They ... !), but that's the really significant error. So please don't worry, and please spread the word so others don't worry! ----------- [Edit] My bad

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  week. (So please don't write to me 10 times asking if I've received your ... today as if it were still 1/1 - and no, you won't be penalized for being a ... to happen as the server doesn't seem to have been down for very long. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... 've said that I don't care, that I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through ... stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy!

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  May, the majority of you should have received them, but don't worry if ... your friend has received his/hers and you haven't, don't be concerned. 2

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his job. dan: why can't we just take a break from blogging? it's not as if ... away from home? cj: well, the exact details of why aren't important. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can’t ... ."]Speedball[/annotation]? I bet you don’t know who that is. Or [annotation note="After getting

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... didn’t memorize the street names. Midway there, I realized I’d forgotten

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good ... isn't utilitarian." Speaking rationally, my brother would be making the ... ticketing system was a mess: Olivia wasn't performing at a large arena, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true answer. It's possible there was some more specific reason that he didn't

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't ... . Furikake is actually cheating when it comes to rice, and it probably isn't that healthy but it makes rice taste good, so I don't really care

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  isn't that so much cooler and less lame than "FIRST!!11 ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I ... Dorm Row? As tempting as it is to retreat to your comfort zone, don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  I did a lot of reading and relaxing. That in itself isn't a ... ="and since I had spent the past several days working remotely, I didn't want to ... gone according to plan, I wouldn't be writing this post. When I first got

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with ... meanspirited nature and anger. He thought I was really mean and while it didn't ... call out people on their behavior or on something I don't like. I asked

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  . Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... comments throughout the day! I can't tell you how to get into MIT. What I ... CPW events going on that you won't have a shortage of things to do

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... . The thing is, I don't know anyone who scored higher than the average ... specific algorithms. These people are here, somewhere, and yet I don't know

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... what shoes to wear for summer. And no, it wasn't some peer-pressure thing, because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... go to MIT, isn't that enough proof to say that racism isn't alive?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I ... cool 8th grader (because don’t we all feel that way in 8th grade) that is ... perfectly describe how I felt when I first put foot on campus, but sadly I don’t

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015