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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... 1916: at the time, MIT didn't even own the land west of Mass Ave, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week ... more net benefit in the long run. At least in this case, the adventure

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  admitted.  In my mind, it makes perfect sense.  It is, at least initially ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  hanging from a window and half a dozen people leaning out and waving at us ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  seems unlikely, because why not shoot for the stars? However, at MIT, we ... they interact with are feeling, and are experts at adapting themselves to ... well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to breathe, recover, and rest. As I catch up with friends and hang out at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat ... lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... cigarette butts at my feet. One dog, little and orange, who chases the rats

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... it’s true. I’m a bit amused at the prospect of you being angry at me ... , at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too… one day you will

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... only. We also didn’t serve ourselves. Instead, we pointed at what we ... was expecting to be able to stay in that room for at least the school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... single simple condition. In a now-famous study, psychologists at the ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and beloved professors at the institution. 8.01L met in the basement ... you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... problems, but some of these people have become my closest friends at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  ="attachment_84090" align="alignnone" width="300"] look at how 3-D the leaf is ... a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... watched [annotation note="props to whoever manages to consume tv at this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... could have made given what he knew at the time. I can’t fault past-me for ... sunday’s thread who reminded me of this quote"]“To love at all is to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and ... at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... , and marvel at your very adult portion of vegetables. [carousel image1

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  better in a quiet coffeeshop at noon, or maybe you work better in a huge ... train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another ... climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  here doesn't mean you can't do everything you wanted to do at MIT. This ... ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... people here, everything at MIT has made my life worse. You've escaped

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  am, at least to myself. I'm always telling myself that I was cheated ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don ... author Timur Sahin '11 and reflects his experiences living at MIT's Senior

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012