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• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream to make myself feel better. M.B. ‘17   I had just finished the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010