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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . Kahlenberg said about why legacy admissions are bad. I personally would not ... . Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make ... something I thought we’d been pretty clear about. Mollie blogged about it back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  that i decided this would be good for me. i am taking four math classes ... about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... "][/annotation] i miss the tower of plushies on the beanbag. i miss that there would

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I write, no matter how stupidly punctuated, is fraught with tightropes ... 's never as beautiful as I would want. And that is the story of my blog. I ... else's home. I was unsure about classes. I wondered whether I would need

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

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... dining plan during college, knowing how to cook is still an essential life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on ... it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  Admissions, I know very little about the college essay and how it's evaluated ... Edit: Aww, shoot! I wrote you all this blog post last night, before I ... might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8 ... and how well you can do it, and I think this is something I particularly ... March, I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that I’ll finish it soon

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  websites that I check every day. They are, in no particular order, xkcd ... I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  though I too thought we would lose, I was smiling, bubbly, as we all ... I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... blogs I started stayed half-baked. Trying to romanticize bleary

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves ... goodbye: So long, goodbye Hey, here's a fun idea How 'bout I sit on the ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  as many of my other maker friends. It’s also how I got to know my first ... -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  with any last minute items. I'm sure you've been to the CPW website. Did ... I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... -profit organization status: $25,000 would be donated to the station by Turner under the condition that WTBS-FM would apply for and receive new call letters. Turner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities ... .k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... One day, fun things happened. I started blogging about them immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  pause. Often, I would simulate conversations with people I’d had that day ... five minutes had passed. It felt like sleep would never come. Once I fell asleep, though, dreams took over. On occasion, I would wake up from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  to splash those walking besides me). I’m not quite sure how guys do it ... raincoat would be necessary, but oh was I wrong. When your umbrella fails, it ... cover * So most people would not consider this essential, but I just got

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005