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  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city ... then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them. on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  , hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... summer -- painting, drawing, gaming. Anything to keep the little string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To ... circumstances, to which one can hold tight, when necessary…” - from Nachdenken ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the MIT blogs? Here's the official Ben Jones reason: I asked Snively to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... applying to college, I sometimes felt like I didn’t have people to turn to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... MIT—an intensive entrepreneurship workshop that runs over IAP, open to any member of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept ... looking forward to this year? I’m gonna rush, because I’m everything I think ... soon, because I’m everything I think I’m not. Hey, what are you up to on

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... from here when I lived on campus, so really this used to be my local

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... come later than they originally said they were going to. I'm impatient ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020