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• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... one application in particular that I poured my heart into - I wrote nine ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this ... today too. And I'd love to hear how you're doing :) ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  beyond three but their ordering is a mystery that i will never know. there ... past three” is one of them. today i was doing 20 squats with a friend and ... ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  blogging (this): 2 hours The thing that sucks is that I love doing all of ... 'm doing fulfilling work in other things, I find that my main stress outlet ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on

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

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to ... do that?” he asked, flipping it around in his hand. “This thing has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I love how lunch is at 2, and dinner is at 9. 4. I love how the stores are ... , during my month in Spain, I discovered that I had a knack of getting the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... Favorite thing about MIT: The people. That students and staff are engaged in so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  because that’s the best thing to do in Camarillo. My dad took us hiking on ... a place familiar to me, to rediscover and see new things in those places. This past weekend, I’ve traveled hundreds of miles in the LA area

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities ... I write, no matter how stupidly punctuated, is fraught with tightropes ... language are the substanceless dragonflies that I chased after as a kid. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  ’s still a bit weird how he told me that I shouldn’t be going to Urgent Care ... this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational ... actually worked, or why it mattered; or I felt that taking a certain class ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  that all the stores I stopped in had air conditioning. I picked up a cute ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because ... in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in ... campus to work instead. On the rare days that I do stay back, like today, I ... system, a personal set of idiosyncrasies that govern how we approach the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  may find that MIT is the perfect match for you as well. I am referring ... . I have heard from a number of current students that getting connected ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  a lot.  I didn’t do that well in the class but had a good experience ... that CJ and other bloggers have blogged about in the past. It is a ... the play also wrote poetry and I mean that in a very good way. the play

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... ! – Treading water is hard, especially in a pool that’s only four feet deep. Long ... goggles and saw the world in a new, more nostalgic way. I realized that this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a ... when you sit in a wheelie chair without any self-control. That said, the ... yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the ... investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals ... internship, I even used a decision matrix in which you rate criteria and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... residents of Senior Haus being upside down. (Is that obscene? I don't think ... , it was halfway through that book when I finally couldn't take any more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008