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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  'm going to graduate. And then I have to be an adult. I'm not sure you can ... ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an ... the world was flat and that you could get to the end and just drop off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  competition this weekend. You can see a sweet picture of him busting and burning here -- can you see the MIT sticker on his helmet? Rocket scientist by ... (where you do need a master's to enter a PhD program). Actually, the only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  Fame. Okay guys, you did get me on the whole immaculate conception ... to two different chemical engineering problems. This is so you can ... . You can't fool all of the people all of the time! Why don't you stop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  , or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting can be tough because it feels like there's nothing that you can do, but—if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  't get summers off the way you slackers do... so let's just call it even ... , keeping tabs, making sure you're getting the most out of your college ... 's going to take some time. I guess you probably want to know the details. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  . Because once you get into the MIT momentum, it seems like there's only ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... designing and turning concepts into real constructed spaces where people can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A ... section on Page 6 where he's like, “Charges can be positive or negative. By ... 's not whether you get in or not that truly matters; the important thing is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  every month we have a paper due on one of about 30 topics (or you can make ... paper before the grace period starts, you will get your paper back with comments and a preliminary grade before the grace period is over. You can

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  with the schedule of speakers and topics. You can sign up for the course ... world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  American and Korean American can get?), which involves being loud, running ... present. Where is that Beyonce gif when you need it? Figure 8. Our team ... where you are so much as what you do. It was humbling and exciting and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  international students can no longer get visas for their parents to participate in ... seriously looking into how I can get back, how I can go back--doing Fulbright ... lying awake at 2AM. I lived a life where I get a masters in robotics and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  stepping away from a good thing so you can take care of yourself is okay ... maybe someday I’ll open a metaphorical tea shop, where we can all sit ... battle within where one part of himself –the compassionate and sensitive

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... could use his credit card." "You can't just send an ion through a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  an optimization problem, where you as an applicant maximize your ... - it's all getting done, in short but furious bursts of work. If you ... 's anxieties and pressure from others. But before you let it get to you, remember

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  impress? Tell stories like you would over lunch. Get out there and tell us ... being equal. (Hey, we can dream.) But life gets in the way, too. Around ... . Make sure you grab every one of those you can

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  Oh, you all thought you were getting a blog post from me? Not today ... -odd-year-old house in Cambridgeport. Owning your own house means you can modify it as ... is a great time to get to know you housemates, whether they just moved

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  road for Cool Dogs, my absolute favorite summer treat. You can buy them ... you're going to get to keep your blog next year? I think it would be ... ). Foreign languages are probably the major exception, because you can take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  that out, she piped up, “If you check our website, you can find schedules ... . There was one related to programming, and there was one where you try to predict where a ball will go when you put it in a series of tunnels and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022