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• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical urban-legend sense; they are testimonials about the trajectories that your

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... present itself physically - via heart palpitations or sweating or the feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... ’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied, because he was in any way deficient, but because the British army was too

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

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  reflect. This year is not only the blogs' 10th birthday, but also the 10th ... -10 years (not yet). I had no idea that I would bike halfway across the ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed, Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of 2020 who are all struggling with the same basic decision as Sam: whether

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... ='Which, nothing against WF —  I love the spicy mango and pineapple salsa too —  but getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021