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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... discouraged. And sometimes, the best thing I can do for myself is have enough ... -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... for and everything else. And yet...or maybe because of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... — a green alternative material for an established company that was ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... . Sewing? Not consistent enough. Running? Not something I did for fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse. I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... for months and not reach the end of it, and new content is still being ... for days upon end with little intervention. Large community as well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could've prepared for, so I read extensive festival survival guides and bought a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... 't even sure what field of internship I was looking for, seeing as I was ... "Sorry, we're not looking for freshmen" or "We prefer people with prior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020