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• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... ="105944" image6="105945" image7="105946" /] In the evening, a few of us practiced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... event is held in Pappalardo Lab, where the sun shines brightly through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... often in computer-science classes because there are so many people in them ... “dispenser” in quotation marks because the machines are So. Unbearably. Slow

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... played correctly you should feel like you’re moving in sync with the song ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... vagueness. There is some importance in reflecting upon and understanding which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do this semester, but in practice, it doesn't feel like it? i'm taking 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... was able to find a place to stay in Tang Hall, a grad residence right

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without ... science or tools or fabrication processes in this post, mostly because there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  grown up, in general. some thoughts: these days when i'm in an uber, or ... in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... . weighing my time in money. learning more costs of things. measuring cost in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... sentimental. It reads poorly. It clambers around in naivety, sending any ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in ... will get lost. You will get locked out. You will get caught in the rain

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... reminded me that being happy and healthy is the most important thing in life ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... -year applicants applying in fall 2021, or transfer applicants applying in either ... as those listed in the next bullet point.']help us more accurately

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... trees. One year ago I was in Venice, fairly certain this virus everyone ... caught in this "not unpleasant in-between" in my last blog. No longer in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  into people in the hallways or dancing with 30+ other people in the floor ... beyond anything that could happen in current times; we were dancing for hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020