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• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  ! Anyway, so, uh, last Saturday? my floor decided it would be a good idea to ... request a total of $3300 to plan trips with one another. It's a way to ... gets to pretend she's a real pirate for a little bit along with first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  have to leave the house to carpe diem. Help make MIT a better place ... think it's important to let the people in your life know that you ... 'm taking that as a lesson that I need to worry a little less and just enjoy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The ... , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  Exhibition”, and apparently there’s a WikiHow article called “WikiHow: How to ... ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of ... phrase. A theme. Holly: Yeah, like to give it a theme or to give it a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... ’t happen. 2020 was the year when I took a break, and I want 2021 to be the ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  excellence and, more importantly, sustainability (a subtle nod to the subtitle ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than enough to infer a cohesive plot with near certainty. Without further ado

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  South Africa on a mission trip to the Mamelodi Township near Pretoria. I ... you build a solution to a problem in another country. Some examples from ... onto a bicycle to make travel easier, so that will be our focus. That

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... MIT student to talk about my life. Don’t get me wrong, this was a time ... ’s just that whenever I started to write a blog post, I would immediately

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ... calls upon the GEL 2s to conceive and operate a unique ELL. We started

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... do this. Two important factors he stressed when evaluating a field are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... in response to hearing a tiny fraction of his or her story. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  server to import to the main MIT server since it's located a bit off campus ... campus and see the places that are important to you means a lot, especially ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  time and energy to academics and social life. Overall, it’s a great balance of all the things that are important to me."  Favorite sport ... traveled to Middlebury for our second-round NCAA game. It was a pretty long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... . bummer. - i use my hands to talk. a lot. but it’s not the good kind of ... fear, you music elitists out there, i listen to a little bit of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  excellent. It demonstrated, to audience members, the importance of a conductor ... the show, an audience member came to me and told me that he even felt a ... fact. With the help of notes and rhythms, we are able to paint a picture

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the ... senior who taught me how to prepare a turkey and run a kitchen for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess ... play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007