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• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any better. I got some good advice from a friend and they helped me understand ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... Date: Jul 6, 2024, 1:14 AM Subject: [annotation note='this is SUCH a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Spotify Wrapped came out a little while ago, and Kayode wrote a post ... Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... auditory engagement—I spend most of my time as a shamelessly mindless

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... in the U.S."]NCAA[/annotation] tournament.  The regular season was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... the same. MIT has been a place where I felt more like I belonged than I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  a dress rehearsal. Still, we had one more excursion at the Cultural ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT’s hardness. Background But first, let me address a question that’s undoubtedly ... -Webster defines hardness as “the cohesion of the particles on the surface of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... oversubscribed. "I've written a few raps," Wenjun said. "What about you?" "Get me ... a few times, but he was never in. Yesterday, Wenjun sent me a series

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars   ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... Association. it is a student government body that deals with a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... assumption in pushing is that a force applied in some direction will result in ... yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  : i notice myself feeling cold much more easily now. as a kid and ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... office, the whole admissions staff received a same-day delivered boxed meal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... , and is probably the only one that I will ever take. It's a [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  What follows is a guest post from the Chop Stir Hack team. CSH is a new MIT ASA group that publishes a semesterly food magazine. It grew out ... microwaved food. While this assumption does hold some truth, MIT actually has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  't listen to as much music as I know a lot of other people do, and my tastes definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a ... things all the time. Like, a lot - although on this front I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has ... us occupied during a regular MIT day. Or, it's just what Petey said ... at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020