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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... could cry, then I would much rather them leave me alone and allow me to ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  orient myself to a new reality. I probably needed a break from lifting ... the heavy things, but still needed sturdy ground on which to stand. I ... Jamie C. '19 and I (among others) had once bought the materials to build a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... will usually be four years. you have so much to do afterwards. regardless ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... :30am and 3am. While not always effective, when I need to do something, I ... and my target completion time of 12pm (when I needed to leave for the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  to the 6.036 LA "I have to go -- I need to go staff 031." And she ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester ... definitely no longer wanting to explore as much. So I got closer to some. But

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  performed here once! And listened to many amazing performers. I still remember ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  transportation. Once I moved to Boston I went to Wheelworks - the best bike shop ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in

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

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... much work I had. Hearing the phrase "I'm six-one" began to mean ... absolutely worth the time. It took me until 5:37 AM to finish 18.02, much

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014