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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  recommendation from a coach, boss, or community/religious group mentor; a note explaining a special circumstance in your case. anonymous wrote, "I am a high ... -material like a letter stating why one wants to study there or the optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a ... know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxbyMxSrcM[/embed] PS - As I read the previously published blogs, I see a bunch of us have

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... my cohort not making straight A's, suggesting that it was possible ... [annotation note="Not a joke. I earned a B in 5.12 with difficulty. The

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

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  tinkerers  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so ... who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year ... Guy Joined a Band in College, and That Small Animal is Riding a Huge

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... means…what even is a kilometer?"]length of a football field ... exclusively facedown and the last one optionally faceup. You also get a t

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  said, I went into MIT without a concrete idea of what exactly I was getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ways, I was right, but in a lot, lot, lot more ways, I was wrong about

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  it a listen! Day 4 [caption id="attachment_88593" align="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... attraction – a 42-meter-tall observation tower looming above the rainforest

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been ... guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past ... into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect ... really these developments and travels have been great and I've learned a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a ... move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... just ask that you have a little patience.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... Fred Desk, I waited an extra two days, and still nothing. At this point a ... . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020