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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... . But it felt to me like they weren't founding a startup because they wanted their product to exist. It felt like they were founding a startup

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  image search.”) is at the entrance to the bathroom. I suspect it may be ... moon 67 years before we did. It is considered the first science fiction ... Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... , experiences, and stories that make me feel comfortable and safe. It’s nice to go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... already? Take it slow. Current students are, expectedly so, so excited to

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination ... the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is ... prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  just how wild it is to be here, living this moment as opposed to the one ... 't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year – which is to say, crazy, fast-paced, unbelievable, terrifying, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  about MIT is that this place does break you down. It doesn’t have to break ... , because sometimes it’s the fire that inspires us to keep going, and anger is ... to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away ... anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  matter. For college to be worth it. If all you want to do is learn stuff ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... "meritorious" students who lack it. This is simply wrong. It is also subtly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... ’m taking, and where I live. When I introduce myself to people, it’s only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  academic career is leagues better now than it used to be. So when you get ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... the answer before returning it to idle, listlessly day dream about the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... , because I have seven more chances to take (and pass) it, the only difference

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  enjoy using math and science to construct new things. It is safe to say ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... if a bit basic from a distance, but it is a nightmare to traverse

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where ... moment. Because when it comes down to it, this is just one decision. Don ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015