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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  . Even for those of you for whom we don't have enough room for at MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  don't help terribly much, and we never expect that applicants will send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  me wonder why I don't see more people listing fishing as an activity on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  asynchronous, so I mostly did it in bed or past 11 PM, so I don't really count it ... bit, but also that's what people who don't finish their goals say so ... don't care, I do notice that waking up and putting on an adult outfit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  ” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know ... of first time parents behind you, don't worry [annotation note ... detroit Like i don't doubt they could move me to the 11pm but like That's a

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  support of my application. honestly, i don't know him too well since the ... fair and we don't get to present it or anything until late January ... topic, Bryan wrote: Although 500 words don't seem like a lot, it's what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know ... . I have no measure of how this post will be received (sometimes I don’t ... minute intervals). I don’t want to scare someone away. But also, while I

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don’t ... predictions from my decisions. (i.e., if I don’t finish this assignment now

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  unsustainable, that i might have lost myself somewhere along the way, and if i don't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  open, traffic stretching for miles, and tourists in every corner. I don’t ... childhood— ”that’s odd, you don’t strike me as the very quiet type.” Here

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  I have read here. I just don’t really have the balls to do that. The blogs are, after all, for the entire internet. This includes people I don’t

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  semester. long story that i dont feel like telling in full right now. tldr ... just wanna scream NO there’s a bunch of us out here struggling don’t

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  full need, our admissions is need-blind, and we don't have an admissions ... new policies as I write this blog post; however, know they they don’t

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  the leaves red and orange and gold and yellow. Don’t be silly, I laughed ... us went outside to draw trees. I don’t know what I’m doing, we all said

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  I don't know all the names. there has been some dining staff appreciation with spotlights on different people each week but I don't think they

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  ; ...but also don't burn yourself out <3 Towards the end of CPW, I was ... -and-slide (don't do this)"]"Don't let the rain ruin the vibe, we promise you

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for myself because schools in the UK apparently often don't have dining ... don't even like 26-100... i have been so lucky with almost all the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  don't have cats. [caption id="attachment_96401" align ... about these for now. I still don't quite understand how these kinds of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024