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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be ... guaranteed to be free, though you can adjust the search filter to only display ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  quickly. These were true, but I thought I could find ways to defeat them: I ... and talked my way into a free waltz lesson, and I went to the middle of ... unexpected four-figure bill shrouded in paperwork that needed to be paid ASAP

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... talks about the gap between having good taste and being able to produce ... Elizabeth asked if I wanted to be part of Science Out Loud Season 3, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to some extent -- you’ll be influenced by circumstance and will make ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ’ll be a postdoc at UC Berkeley, supported by a Miller Research Fellowship

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  opportunities to learn. You are similarly going to be surrounded by people who ... and effort into making them transformative in ways you want to be ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  chancing may be fun, or a way to blow off steam, or just something to do ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  that by the next catalog we look at we'll see an explicit effort to be ... just completed by the time this catalog was written. Not to be confused ... used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... identity, and one to be proud of rather than ashamed of.   11. First ... prepared to sprint my way to class, when I stopped in my tracks. Powders of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  conversations! The best way to learn about an organization is by asking members ... experience would be like. Outside of reaching out, going to events hosted by ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... home feel a world away; I am being taken by both the excitement and the ... I used to be. About to reread a favorite novel instead of chasing my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the ... dormitories, referring to their absence on the soon-to-be-former campus as “one

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , a meal would be made and devoured. I signed up to be on the cook team

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  sometimes felt like they were able to be that way in spite of MIT, not because ... tests), so just learn how to solve them the quick way. Do a few practice ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... to tell you about this semester. Eventually, one-by-one, they will ... or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  , seems to be returning to the Milky Way from a delivery to a very distant ... image search.”) is at the entrance to the bathroom. I suspect it may be ... to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  do not want to be limited by exclusivity. Some people prefer to ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long ... inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018