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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  pieces up while the icing dried, but nothing was working for me. I was ... sorted out (and has been sorted out for quite awhile), I have a few messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... was. I had been able to keep up my pace of writing a poem a week for ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

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

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  gearing up for four straight years of MATH. But then I found myself writing ... notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... gallon of milk every morning. I am well known among family for ripping off

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  personnel split up between our four project groups for some rapid-fire idea ... ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  Well, tomorrow is May 1st, the postmark deadline for reply forms. The ... hand for help. 2. Read Melis' most recent entry on how she made her ... heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." 3. Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... , articulate what that means anymore. When I was 17, about to leave Arkansas for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  't believe that Kathy never woke me up and stood in the hallway for quite ... come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  . Sign up for the reuse and free-food mailing lists. Go to Choose to Reuse ... lots of on-campus events while on Pass/No Record. Try to sign up for ... , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... up exposures for the Eagle Nebula, my friends and I laid down on the ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... taken up by classes or extracurriculars. My mornings are taken up by the ... fucking exhausted. My typical day looks a little bit like this: Wake up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  proceed to say that 14 is Economics for all the [annotation note="cj: course ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... also your adviser for the first year. 21m.a16 is beyond independent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  gusto. Yida and I were cracking up for a solid half an hour watching them ... students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... bridges' structural integrity, what are your goals for the summer? I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have ... drop Wednesday: Same as Monday, substitute psetting for issue night and ... make the news section of that newspaper you pick up on campus look pretty

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  first encounter was. (Can't say the same for bringing up my high school ... I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006