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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... diverse personality would fit perfectly into place in an energetic ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  for a week, for a weekend, for an afternoon. In the end, it was just ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... , looking back on it, there were signs: I still remember feeling an absurd ... swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . Hopefully they find what they're looking for. Some notes on the process: I ... the scaly bastard doesn't haunt me in my dreams for making him Like That. ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , things i now look for in every student org i consider joining: things that ... “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  have volunteer work like this in the United States). So, we looked for ... an entire month, because we went in the winter during the dry season ... school, too far for many of the people in Muti to walk to for water. One

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... . Freshman year, I could hang onto a talk for an average of probably 5 minutes ... were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  " and an arrow written pointing to it. There's also "For other subjects in ... instructed in MIT for the next few catalogs, but it's notable that it appears ... numeral for a long while. The numbers in this catalog are pretty much today

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption ... word makes you look as good to an employer as possible. You guys can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... . In reality, it’s done by puzzling over equations for days on end ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... day, just a couple weeks ago, after having been in committee for 4 days

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... ;   In September 2011 I started studying for a Master of Public ... .  (She's awesome.)  In the summer of 2012 I got an internship at a startup

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... Caltech student’s suitcase just in time for their (probably agonizing) 8 ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  looked around my room. Messy for the past month, it was cluttered with ... filter for the past few days. After staring at the ceiling for half an ... front of the statue of the Alchemist with an umbrella, I waited for her

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  of things in life happen); we just had an idea and ran with it. Our ... [/annotation] in funding and we applied for it. If you really want to examine the ... design For dormspam-the-game, we ran 5 separate games. In this section, we

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , and they will all look soft and warm and inviting in the same way the ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... of our thoughts in a post-mortem, and leave it for the next CPW ... which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020