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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to ... , with a C. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all ... I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT. Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a ... , but collectively, it was a poor choice to have said yes to so many ... a whole hour before i set my alarm, and could not go back to sleep. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... —you’d probably realize that we’re related. More than a few people have approached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you ... smells a boolean satisfiability problem to solve. 21:17 - 22:17 Pecker Board Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  yet to re-experience that level of wretchedness since coming here as a ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade ... man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... this amounts to less than a year. I guess prior experience in competitive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010