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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  enough - couldn’t wait for classes to start. Not for the homework or the lectures, but for the routine that came with them. I wanted my Google ... goodness for [annotation note="Since adjusting to MIT as a first year can be

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one ... they do at some point for everyone), I had a home and second family to ... , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... I should have caught up to the group by then. I paused and checked ... surreal. We'd been going for eight or nine hours by now. The sun had been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  close to being on campus as I’ll get for a while now, so I’m enjoying the ... out of my comfort zone by reaching out to a random person and forming a ... making new memories. To clarify, I think it’s easy to make new memories on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  for the entire class. I really, really like this class. We get to build ... worry about finding a group for projects. Again, this class is supposed to ... met was a graduate student, so I decided to get some food and leave. #7

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... experiences—I decided to look for the essays I actually wrote when I applied to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for ... to any problems on our end. We are happy to accept fee waivers for any ... about any new awards or anything else you want us to know about. January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  ,[/annotation] I was entranced by the instructions for a simple origami cube laid out ... with modular origami, folding [annotation note="great way to get started ... new hobby, or if you miss one you used to love, or if any of the things

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... somethin’), kinda hard for those new to coding; and 2.003, Dynamics, less ... metal. My goals for future projects are to get my hands on group

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for ... night was redeemed for me by the appearance of celebrity chef/secret crush ... Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to ... to my e-mail. Refresh. No new e-mails. Snapchat. Front cam. Fuck, is ... ." I'm awkwardly posed next to them, hovering over them by a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  people, joy, and friendship that was required to get there. For me, MIT ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... 't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , I wanted to try a new route for getting there. Instead of walking ... pendants and rings. Through DesignPlus, I also get 24 hour access to its ... pumpkin patch sale to raise money. I was told that the best way to get in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... math for math's sake, I've found 18.02 has swayed me to the course 18 ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  ,[/annotation] so I drag myself out of bed by 7 and get to work. 8:00 AM By 8, I ... new. I take the bus for about twenty minutes, then get off where the ... , then go to take a shower. 5:00 PM As I wait for Amber to get from the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022