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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  few months.  On Living  Back in March of 2020, when all of campus was ... am also so exhausted. On Learning  The insecurities of the med school ... decisions”, but you can make decisions right. On the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  advertising the concert i just walked out of. the gravity on my chest flips, and ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room ... one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being ... a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of ... 't know how to drive, and chances are, that's an important part of going on ... day of your first driving lesson. It's raining. On the way to where you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  on mae, who recently dropped out of college and moved back to her ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to ... silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... least not officially. Come on MIT, what is that? It’s breaking tradition

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  write 6,000 words of blog entries on an 8-hour train ride, if you just ... DID YOU KNOW? Super Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out for the Wii on ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic ... general Institute funds. Sixty-four percent of undergraduates qualify for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... Biology at MIT when he was only 19! On Tuesday, George Smoot won the Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP ... mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  January tests on a case-by-case basis. I hope that covers most of your ... [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to ... MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... , helping share part of the effort. The more hands on deck, the better

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  that you’re not completely sold on MIT yet. Perhaps a friend of a friend ... nerds (yuck!) To be fair, this depends on your definition of nerd ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  of fate and some bad defense, weBabble scored on Toxic Algae, and ... ; But the best part of DME was the tournament on Saturday; driving was ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  post on "the guilt of being admitted": I think it's exactly what I needed ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  class on thursday, but there isn't that same sort of confused despair that ... from experiments, and i could just focus on doing things. this past week ... on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up

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

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you ... , regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try maseeh dining because people on mit confessions have been claiming it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  I'm excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren't on campus, I won ... finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020