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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Congratulations! You have finally been accepted to college! 4 ... Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college

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

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger, which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... nothing more, SLP protested greatly when my friend tried to download Genshin Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to ... beautiful, and (some) mathematicians do use calculus in their day-to-day life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving away to frats or sororities, where they would have the ability to ~vibe

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House ... life on this earth, which I think serves to illustrate that this has

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Preface from Jebby: In addition to participating in Next Haunt with Andi and Aiden this year, I was also fortunate to have two Next Haunt staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiVYEjp0Ww&ab_channel=SaltTech We hope you are happy! Take some time to celebrate with those who are important to you; we'll have more important, cylindrical information for you

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and like we were supposed to know how to advise actual first years on where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMxRBYQs5k Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, remember to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022