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• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  be graduated.” And once he was “required to explain absence from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  was difficult to see her struggle and cry and be sad. As much as I want ... Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... still pretty sure that she was going to Georgia Tech, and then Johns

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006