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• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... ; when everything is different, you get the chance to become someone ... about who you are now and what you will become. What’s your name? Where do

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you ... very much once you get here. Everybody needs the occasional vacation from

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . This is where you can find advice on the application and its various ... that I can give you to answer all your questions: visit the MIT ... Best of the Blogs is where you will find the most helpful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  -section of MIT culture, to attempt to show you everything that you can possibly ... Has CPW left you with this? :) So I learned two major things about myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  your schoolwork!). Because eventually, you're going to get to go to that college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and ... to me, but you get what I mean, right? I was trying to use parallel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  missing documents, get them in ASAP so that you can get a financial aid ... us as much specific information as you can; this will help us make your ... ). Take as much time as you need to make your decision (and if we can help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  do, to get there. When you sleep 3 hours a night for a week and suddenly get 8 hours the day after the midterm you were cramming for, it gets ... sitting so I can feel like I didn’t just waste my entire day.   Some

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  video into good five-second quotes that can pop up dynamically when you ... get a picture of you pipetting that? Or, I mean, with this microscope ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• 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 / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  you'll get a chance to experience both cultures and decide where you ... answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... for the MIT Class of 2009. Also, we're happy to get you in contact with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... you attain the illustrious rank of keyholder, you too can spend your ... the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  , now. to the point where you can't even see where it went. catching up ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff you missed for two weeks. that workload you were keeping up with side by

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  , but mostly because of its [annotation note="'-Where do you live? -In ... extroverted, I hope we can get along. Boy, did I underestimate how well we would ... catching up with you. Greek and dorm life in MIT is special and everyone can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  what a sunrise sounds like another one for your ears

  

  ) out by the sailing pavilion, there are some benches where you can sit with the road behind you and the river path in front, and watch the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 11, 2017
• 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 / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  answer is always the same: "Whoever can write most compellingly about you ... thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section ... something you can do if you feel at all worried or anxious about what we might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... . :’) PS if you are curious, you can find explanations for the full range of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... their research through the SPUR program. You can find out more about the ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• 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