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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  . It meant nothing on the larger grading scheme, but to you and your ... bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... everywhere and lashing out to try and blame it all on something, anything — but ... idea how to use any of the equipment or what to do and i also hated the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on ... , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is ... respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  ."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  extra spots on the map. We saw a lot of stuff -- took the metro to ... that turns out. How are your applications going? The folks in admissions ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor ... are supposed to be on vacation, but whatever. The exhibits were pretty ... recommend checking it out on your way into or out of Berlin, if nothing else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my ... (and still very shell shocked) to report that I’ll be working on the God ... construction of the fort railings (which basically means telling freshman how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... the task, I had to find 50 unique things on campus and spent a decent ... Stud. Most food on campus is a tad expensive, so I often opt to make my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  for that on eBay or something? The other thing I have to share with you ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire week leading up to that moment doing nothing but eating and working on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  possible to find your people at MIT. On a gut instinct, I ranked Burton ... older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow ... people you can come home to. Maybe they don't literally live on your same

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... ).     Lastly, I went to a firehose lesson on physics (and also ... at this video. Nobody knows how to operate this thing because the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night ... --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia ... added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  to create a program to educate students on the significance of ... LTI is on. LTI strives to instill in our students the four cornerstones ... [email protected] to see if you are eligible to join us in the fall or get

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  WOMEN'S bathrooms: ZERO POINT TWO FIVE!!! MIT male: Uh...how did you get ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... something like "Dear Anna, Good luck on your J-Lab presentation tomorrow! I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... can think of anything else, let me know. The article goes on to mention

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... that's specifically designed to get lots of sign-ups, kinda like search ... be good at getting to know people and being friendly and stuff. but it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  because I decided to stay up late and continue working on my critical review ... So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005