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• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to ... spiraling, smaller thoughts and feelings. Here is my best attempt to describe ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... to paint murals freely, while others limit art or forbid painting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... Mississippi. Among all the Amtrak trains I’ve experienced, three stand out to ... ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to immediately running to class (from the farthest possible dorm to run to campus ... closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  burst onto the stage to welcome everyone to the [annotation note ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I'm so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by ... and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so. Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the blogs I started stayed half-baked. Trying to romanticize bleary

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  ’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang ... years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of Zuko’s identity, to the point that he becomes extremely physically ill

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... . Earlier today, President Reif sent the following email to all faculty, staff, and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... with. So I am allowed to go to senior ball, senior week, and any other ... matter before I apply to graduate school. I am taking five classes for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger ... actual day-to-day workings. Sound familiar? There's nothing necessarily

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019