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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn ... of classes, although I did do a few things   like teaching and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  -time employer to do the same. But it also horrified me, because suddenly I was ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... sentimental of a person and do that crap everytime I go home, and because I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  helping hand - hey, we've all been there before! * Generally, you are doing ... . Studying usually involves doing problem sets (the equivalent to homework in ... of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  notoriously huge workload because I was pretty sure that I'd love doing the work, no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... still do well at MIT, that's great... but if not, be as brutally honest as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... twisted, unconventional, and often incorrect. It's what we came here to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  do we mean by this? Everyone here was admitted based on the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i ... freshman year was to do a good job to whatever i commit to. through my own ... can generally be relied on to do certain things is quite valuable as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  they now, what do they do? And how far back could I go? Tracing the past ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research ... that we leave records of what we currently do.']ESP historian

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , but in doing so, trap them in place and hollow them out. 6 - printed ... of the camera module, partly because the thermal printer can only do ... work I was doing. This might have just been how things work at this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people?” I asked.  Erin, the head of Software, nodded. “Do you want to join ... [/caption] My job the last milestone was to do the electronics. That means wiring

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  group photo’s supposed to happen right now, do we wanna head back?” “They ... was going to do with it, but I sent it over anyway. Just yesterday, he

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep ... commitments. (Why else do we have regrets?) We, external observers, see Wheeler

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  knows what to do to heal. It doesn't know, and I don't know, and the melancholy is bleeding out into everything I do. Staining it. Even this letter

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  dorm: it turns out that quite a few of my fellow bloggers do live ... residents can do to the space, giving rise to murals and loft beds and crazy ... into action. If you don't know how to do something, chances are someone

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  devices constantly tell us what other people are doing. Not doing everything

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  Rice (disclaimer: I *do* think the Rice-Baylor program is still awesome ... intimidating (so much to do!) and very helpful. I've visited the pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011