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• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and ... ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall ... of the fact that you applied to MIT, one of the most selective schools

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline ... 't be, but it is! And of course, the normal anxiety that comes with

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  lot of seasons between the first two and the more recent ones) 15. Ace ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... the hell out of my room. Coming up in the next three weeks with ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that ... !"]regularly.[/annotation] Of course, sometimes you just don’t have the time or the energy to cook ... the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

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

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  it's not the goal. It's the beginning. Enjoy the last few months of high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the ... , though. things are fine. things are fine most of the time. i think i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go ... stocked up on everything when I had extra time over IAP. By the end of the ... this is the least healthy segment of my food consumption >

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of ... majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one winner, but by the list you can see we are feeling the holiday cheer! The ... MIT network... All Numbers, All The Time. First place six-axis and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  , my collaborators—friends—and i were wrapping up the first draft of a ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  ) to 10 (Always). The first number is my result from the beginning of ... -control was out of hand when I first got to the apartment, but now I feel like I ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  rain thing down. The first thing I’ve discovered is that umbrella’s don ... when I don't have to worry about the legibility of my notes when I get ... where it just rains. This week is one of them. It has been raining pretty

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River: My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018