Search

Search Results

• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed ... coming weeks :) When I got these puzzles, I said to myself that I didn’t just want to assemble one-thousand pieces to see some cartoon image of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  blogs since school ended. To be honest, this summer had been wonderful ... to upload everything yet =/). The Taiwan Phase: May 24, 2008 to July 2 ... the epic 24-hour journey back to motherland Asia. (note: this time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  First, I want to thank everybody who left their good wishes with regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing (which heaven knows I do!), feel free to check out my wedding folder -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in conspiracy theory here, usually related to her gender]. History hasn't been kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , it's time to say farewell to the class of 2009 and hello to the class ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... the itch to write. And when Celena C '12 said that she was going to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  them even have ovens!! I'm going to ask them to order some more...oh yeah ... 'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation].

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world has some new baby bloggers, all very excited to write for you! After

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. https

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was ... 's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official ... entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... to the kitchen. Ben is cooking breakfast. "Good morning, CJ." "I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... planning for the fall term had been built around the premise that, due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... to this place than just doing classes. Here's the blog post where I ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland ... non-image content to satisfy you people, but really there isn't anything wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018