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• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  that he found me crying one day, wearing my new boot, saying, “I only ... player.  Now what? I wonder what new purpose I will find to motivate me ... abruptly snipped. I know I love athletics, so maybe I will pick up new sports

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island ... Stuyvesant's new building. Larry, who is a practicing architect in the city ... alumni, bringing them up to date on new things this year, and answering

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  ’m helping build a fort. I’ve experienced so many new and wonderful things ... this mess of overcommitment. Here’s another thing that’s new. For the ... , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... New Yorkers are…well, probably deserving of an occasional punch or two

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday night in Boston. After getting new boarding passes, I then realized that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  professors included in the new exhibit for comment, and recieved the following: The Dean's Office is postponing the installation of a planned new

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Philadelphia, PA Bernalillo, NM New York City, NY Encountering a ... Tapps, WA Between Vancouver and Victoria, BC New Orleans, LA

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  position for rich, new experiences that could somehow shape your identity ... -of-comfort-zone moments that can uncover new things you love and value. Practically speaking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and observe my surroundings, not just from the new cultures we have visited, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold ... cappella group, or an improv comedy troupe. Pick up a new instrument. Get a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design ... exciting, because it's so new. Last term there was a group of students trying

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was ... designed my project around two parameters: I wanted to use new skills and ... excited by dragon-making, my favorite new skill from 3.096. [caption id

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

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  June, and each time, something new resonates with me—the nerve-wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... the reasons I connected to her in the first place and discover new axes

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  up a new game. I imagined Pac-Man, endlessly swerving about his maze ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other ... was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new ... reviewing her paper in detail, with citations and new methods which I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... open a new tab (Figure 1) and learn about that until your computer ... that my new love for reading scientific literature was procrastination

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015