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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  Over the years, we have occasionally published posts from students ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... Howling the Blues"]WMBR,[/annotation] [annotation note="Scheduling Officer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about math all the time, and the only thing that made me feel more sure ... guess this is the right place." Most days, though, I just felt like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... flop around the ice with them instead, and partially because he also ... out the SuperUROP application less than three days before it was due

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve tried out the stripper ... some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  and they replied “probably non-stem people”. and the moment they said ... ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... ’s advice is, but regardless, it begs the question - how many other glass

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No ... for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... it. The main character, Devi, is an outgoing and brash girl whose two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  , but also somewhat into an old, “normal.”  This event was the catalyst ... , water, earth -- oops lol. Let’s try that again.  This event shook up the ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are going to do with our lives the question becomes infinitely more difficult

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  what has happened or is on the schedule to happen today. My day started ... a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat ... , my phone alarm played the following song: I snoozed it twice, and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a significant impact on my mood. This week has been abnormally warm, up in the fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri ... to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... concussion-detecting device they named the Jolt sensor. While wrestling at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014