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• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of ... talk it out. For right now, we just ask that you have a little patience

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  you shoot for the moon, you miss, but that doesn't discount the bravery it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those ... though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they

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

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... basically I used up all my writing braincells that I usually save for the

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

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... want to talk to us in the comments below, we’re here for you. We ask that ... may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... responded with "I have some bad news for you..." to which I felt some concern ... crushed my laptop. He showed me my computer, apologized very sincerely for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  There are four pink dresses in my room. Presentations for MIT's most ... the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] i've had this shirt for eight years now

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ... with the assumption that you should only use your credit card for things you can pay already pay for. Which is ridiculous, because then you could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW, running a quick setup test for a UROP, filling out a when-to-meet, things ... expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i ... a game for the assassins guild. it didn't happen in 2022 or 2021, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember you will survive, even ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New ... . And . . . I put off filing these returns for nearly four years, because ... returns for up to five years after the original deadline), this money could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  , Emma got a 3D printer so she could print things and test thing for her ... you see upon entering our apartment. For those of you who have read my ... last year and the bottom painting was Mariia's gift to Emma for our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural ... analytics and research for the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, a ... configure some accounts for my other job, being a Communications Assistant for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and ... only my younger years in Nashua, that I’ve actually been at MIT for most ... ’ve been here both for only a week and for years. On the last day of classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... rough shape from personally wrangling with it for a little while, it ... for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is ... need improvement for next time, but overall this was an instructive first ... cover art for the podcast, and also maybe have a cute jingle? c: happy

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet ... , before making any drastic changes. So, for now, we’re taking the path of ... UROP for credit - 12 units As you can see, we are only taking 3 classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018