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• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and ... , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... I come home each night and tell my wife over dinner how lucky I am, because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  . Like, I can't tell you how many kimchi fried rices I've eaten in my life ... as I can before I guaduate. So far, I have been doing okay but could ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in ... students can learn about the various organizations on campus, how to plan large events, get funding, and how to get involved in student activities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  : [caption id="attachment_92314" align="aligncenter" width="768"] notice how I ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... 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 / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  subject I never took in high school, and merely passed freshman fall. I can ... Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical ... these are the things I want anymore, much less things I can have. As it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  friends I can reach out to. And people probably think more highly of me in ... warned me against ever taking it in the fall. I think the course staff ... , which means I don't actually have to do the work for the class, I can just

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... until I found myself sorting laundry at 4 in the morning in the basement ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hello out there in TV Land. I'm Sam Maurer. You might remember me from such blogs as Mitra's Blog. I'm sticking around MIT this summer ... excruciating pain I've ever experienced in my mortal life Anyway, that's my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  love dearly, to learn as much as I can and take pride in my achievements ... highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  in the lobby just so I can hear the Ascoli Ensemble, MIT's latest ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... and toasty back home in Oregon. I remember my first night walking back ... the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in ... mother's say (to her) that I only got in because I was a girl. My internal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was when I found out I’d been selected. I thought “Wow, I can share my experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007