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• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an aquifer, meaning that it has a ton of rivers, lakes, and springs dotted all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023