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• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  on Monday. But I can tell you that it won't change who you are ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  if I’d gone to a different university. There’s just so much you can’t predict about how individuals can drastically influence the direction you take your life, how a single professor can change what you want to do for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  Town. You sit there and you wonder, how can people live in such excess ... thought. Regardless of where you are in life, whether you’re committed or just trying to decide where you want to apply for college in the years to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  pushed for us to be right before finals. You can imagine that this can be a ... situations   You may be wondering how, with all students being varying ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all ... sends, you sometimes get surprising answers. As much as they respect

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision ... date moves, we'll let you know.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  the class. Given a simple natural image, can you reconstruct a 3-d ... that are of the same scene but from different angles, can you stitch them ... .  Given an image of a place, can you sort it into a particular scene

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Budget. I can hear all of you collectively booing me. It's okay, I deserve ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  from does this really cool "adventure training" where you get to fly ... gap year, though, I can assure you that ignoring those hesitations was ... -long vacation where you don't actually do anything productive. Not only that, it

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  being said about you. Your essays are the only time that you get to speak ... of an institution determine where you apply. There are only three ways to know that you can't afford a College/University: First you apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  qualities as Prof. Diaz. I was so lucky to have an educator like her. You can ... the blogs' readers where you guys no longer understand my pop culture ... you know what? No introduction is really needed. There are things that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to ... ." Marvin asked "If it's so easy, then why haven't you done it yet?" To which ... where the Waveplace pilot program was being executed. We were a bit early

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... recommend me a book, I can literally put it [annotation note="If you don ... so many copies, and if they're all taken out, you can put it on hold

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , tremendously sexy voice, like melted butter on velvet, to the point where you really can't leave the room once you've started watching an episode. All ... sign any special greetings. Ina will not pose for pictures, but you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  almost always get the same question: “oh, what do you write?” I never have ... characters who are not very similar to myself. I mean, how can you write fiction outside of your own experiences when you can’t really understand

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  hours in a day. There’s a necessary trade off between how much you can do and how well you can do it, and I think this is something I particularly ... ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  the May 3 enrollment deadline, you can instead select the "Enrolling" option on the reply form, and then you can request a deferral any time ... ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  gap year plans are not certain by May 1, you can instead select the "Enrolling" option on the reply form, and then you can request a deferral any ... ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  wandered from the library to the hill, where people used to watch Shakespeare in the Park, and over to the fields, where I played soccer in second grade. There’s a tree so gnarled and bent that even little kids can climb

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021