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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  put photos of other people in the group whenever you see them in the ... 'm in three different stalking channels. One for Cru, one for Orientation ... ="attachment_115835" align="aligncenter" width="600"] As you can see, I was in the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple ... butt on in PE class. Each player was also gifted a weapon of pure magic ... felt aches in muscles as of yet never discovered. The revelry continued

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... to lead the team in spirit. Yours truly was the bearer of Hood Beav ... bones intact! In fact, our team actually did pretty well, with a loss of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... having it today, lied back down in bed and slept until 3 PM. Had a bizarre ... in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  checklist, which will now be turned off. In order to reduce any extra stress ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background. or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... Biotech Group and the UROP office and went in without many expectations ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... latest in this series, from Pat, who wrote me earlier this week: Hello ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation ... . In my work with prospective college students, (as an admission officer ... ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I ... deserve that A in the first place! You could never finish your code all the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for ... thing you learned today in class, and so forth. MIT works by giving people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in ... class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  through some really bad stuff in my life. in the scale of things, it ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend ... job in tech,[/annotation] the transition into doing fabrication (with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• 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 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever ... grants me a rare solitude in my suite kitchen. The counter is clear, all

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019