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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  . For the class of 2025 [annotation note="oh god so young"] applying next ... Applying to things doesn't end after you come to MIT, and waiting ... as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  down the hall. The war had begun, I quickly dropped all of my stuff ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... they fit the *vibe* of the playlist. that way i can curate them into

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  's a creative energy that drives and develops the "universe" of a media ... One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long ... finish off the year by giving you all a full run down of everything that ... whole month of January. So for me, I spent this month learning some new

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... : I went shopping, participated in a hall meeting, walked to Next House

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... none of my classmates understood what I was talking about or indeed had seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014