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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... 's because I spent a lot of time during the fall just trying to find my feet, establish my place, and figure out what I really wanted to get out of this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... can consider the scale to be logarithmic.) The first sign of impending ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  by you I mean of course me, can't enjoy music the way you used to. Can ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  back to the intensity and rigor of MIT, has been these daylong or two ... , my heart rate hit an all-time low of 35 bpm, according to my watch. All ... warmer than expected and I got to soak in the beauty of the brownstones and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  anime with my fellow admits and dedicate quite a bit of time to ... gravitate to, but I ended up with a set of friends with vastly different ... identity. I mean, I obviously dedicated a lot of my time to watching it, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... , pronunciation of those words is unique to the individual. We use these nuances in ... representations that you do have comes with the cost of not being able to perceive

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to ... want to see another piece of sushi again in my life. For the days since ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I ... to look at all components of your application and try to holistically ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  the beginning of December to the end of IAP, and then maybe we could pod ... probably make room in his group to staple with all three of us. The other two ... unpack all of my stuff, because I knew that I'd have to pack it again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it ... allergic to the idea of my friends going into finance, and the word comes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  last class to my first extracurricular activity of the day, rushed back ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this ... instinct was to call a friend from London, but a combination of expense and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term ... exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech ... means exhaustive and it’s absolutely astounding to see the plethora of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... deeper in old sources of comfort. a return to times that weren

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011