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• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... myself to accurately write about what i felt? had i changed so much, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  her ‘lukewarm’ life, and has decided that she needs to reunite with her ... fulfilling as it once was. The key to escaping this, the card ventures, is to ... - often, coming to that realization was painful. What once was viable

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  that I felt I needed, that so much of my emotions were tied to.  IX ... semester, but I won’t bore you with introductory biology. All you need to ... , so as to preserve the original works as they once were, like little

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  have much to learn from the world around us. My friends and I joke that ... healthy trees weakened once by the first attack hardly have time to recover ... miraculous by definition, I sometimes wonder — what does it mean to be a human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and all-male mentors. Then, Ariel and I actually went back to our own high ... one exception to these starkly male environments has been MIT. From my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  pretty generic birch forest and there wasn’t much to see. if i wanted to ... binary electrical signals—bits—you need to represent numbers. so you need ... . you’ll need to move faster if you want to be able to move. the farther

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  , and as much prestige as it may have, MIT is BORING AS HELL to a couple ... . Every once in a while it's important to make them do something or see ... . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  , as they have promised to do repeatedly, but how much easier is it to ... serve is to show them which votes they need to keep, which votes they need ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  music does more to me than just remind me of home. Concentration, it ... can be real difficult to sit down and focus when you need to. The secret ... along too much to figure out how to do calculus, which is a real problem

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  clubs and responsibilities so that I have the energy to dip my toes into ... THINGS Kickboxing PE i.e. I have way too many PE credits but need to be ... weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  leading to cycles of retaliations: a group of Christians would burn down ... . This was a lesson I didn’t have, or need, to think about until recently ... were fine doing it, you didn't need to stand up if you felt that it would

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  miss a class to study for a test or you just really really really need to ... everything we do. However, that then transfers to our first semester here at ... awesome. I got everything I needed to get done that week. Went to office

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... therefore must be done by hand, and also needs to adhere to the rope. I used ... next time. I learned some basic things, like how to burn the ends of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... try to pretend I am. I give up.) Since I don't have that much ... other questions, as always, please feel free to ask. Does it cost extra

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  energy it took to do all these things was always quite a bit. It didn ... completely burned out, and there sadly isn't an exact prescription to help that ... wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put ... to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life, and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  freezing. All it ever does is sleet and snow. All this to say, I have been ... obsessive and more fulfilling. I don't want to talk about my major as much as ... like H-Mart and Daily Table. So, once a week, I make the trek to Daily

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It ... identity, and I needed to experience it like this – mundane, first-hand, by ... asking myself why I would subject myself to so much math anyway. But taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  orgo book that I need to be reading. 3. Watch Avatar - Yes. I know. It ... always mean to return the favor. It's happened maybe once so far. 5. Bring ... After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010