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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  chairs, while the speaker stood poised with a pointer, ready to begin his ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  ! It always takes me a while to get ready for bed and fall asleep, but I ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... over us like a palpable shroud. I was already dangerously close to being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... and a hug and have her favorite chocolate chip pancakes ready. The day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  ," which means being ready to welcome someone when they arrive. It's a ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... during committee, buy low-glycemic index snacks to avoid spikes and crashes, and try to structure our non-admissions related work (like redesigning a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... turned out to be partly true, partly false. I think a better explanation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... .111 (Chemistry) and 14.01 (Intro to Microeconomics) Thursday: 18.02A (Calc II

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... to split a $3 book of stickers or temporary tattoos with some friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a ... . Spring HSSP is a long-term program, open to middle schoolers and high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020