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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  the need to redefine myself? I don’t know where I had read this, but ... capabilities, so I felt the need to subscribe to a stereotype. But here at MIT ... once a year to nothing. When I switched high schools in my junior year

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  also, well, created too many lines for computer programs to handle ... much time on something, commit to it” (He was trying to make me explain ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  .  What changed? Me. I changed. Who was once a headstrong, ready-to ... not happen overnight, and it does not happen to everyone. I'd like to ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Bureau as part of the Midwest, seems much more suited to the moniker ... struggled with falling asleep, but once I was out, it was hard to wake me. I ... ready to rumble. Nothing much else to say right now; after all, I’ve been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  item: i am so, so bad at remembering finance terms--need to start taking ... the right times. right now i store pointers and not data--need to move ... , what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  lead to longevity and good health does not make them any easier to eat. I ... hindered my progress, and what bumpers in my life I need to remove. ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more ... were selected to "become the next generation of tech visionaries ... was one of only two women to win (and the only American woman); the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , the unbreakable backbone I will need to continue in this field is no ... life does: apply to graduate school.  I write to you from Pittsburgh ... ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond

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

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a mild-mannered Admissions Officer. I have to admit that I've been excited to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  of people who won’t mind if I need to rant or vent or share with them ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  ?? Once one starts air frying fries, they can never go back to something as ... start their days at 7am, much to the chagrin of the average student who is ... sterility of the Putz kitchen table. Burn marks would give it some much needed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats ... beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe ... appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  next few days. All I need now are ideas about what to paint! If you leave ... A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  demand that something needs to change. Things that have to stay: UROP ... little too much and you do have to stop doing things in order to be better ... A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  long) every so often - you need to work consistently, and many people on ... to gain experience by working as much as possible, especially before ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our ... many dishes? Did we overestimate the amount of food we needed to make ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... themselves—you have much, much more to offer than that. So flaunt it. My ... they need to write a poignant story about a lifelong passion for their

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  the phone over to my mom, because he didn't seem to know how to handle a ... him?) She wasn't much better - her words to me consisted of, "Don ... would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006