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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , I suppose, is MIT. For where two or three are gathered in my name ... . It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... Shanghai dialect, “we are Shanghainese.” This is a very colloquial, well ... are Shanghainese, we are Shanghainese!” When I was little, my father

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  : "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different ... this situation are basically zero. The initiative has to come from you ... ) resource: I made an appointment with them to go over my first draft, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  , because that’s where their friends are. In 2025, the social media channels ... MIT Admissions blogs are a special corner of the internet because, for ... other bloggers and myself this past week—is that they are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  ’s okay if there are weeks where I do less work than usual. It’s okay, and ... days of concentrated effort. Sometimes there are weeks when everything is just a haze. Sometimes even months. Not months where getting things done

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... and you are presented with this wonderfully elusive thing, choice, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right ... my free time hanging out with my curly-haired husband -- we like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... exceptions. It asks who you are. It demands to know who you are. It's about ... buried deep The secrets that you keep are ever ready Are you ready? I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  reasons, but my favorite reason are the students who are, um: And this ... significantly more famous version of hacking is performance hacking, where objects find themselves in places where they don't normally go. You've

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... were made from scratch - not with frozen dough! [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  people, and a lot of them—there are parts of the world, and a lot of them—where ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  only tell them I’m from Denver, and if they ask “where are you really from” I say Denver, and “where are your parents from”, Denver. If anyone ... street who randomly yell things like “where are *you* from?” or “are you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... most of you are facing right now, the dragon that felt like the final boss of my childhood. There are so many other things I remember

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... blood and bones and makes you feel like you don't exist or are extremely ... correctly - and one can become nauseous or otherwise ill. There are many ways

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in ... favorite directors, and met the people who are still my closest friends today ... airing things that are deeply embarrassing. Let's just get this all out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  presentations are usually pretty dry events. Busy PowerPoint slides, droning ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ’ve been working on over the semester. But while the presentations are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  .7, if you are more familiar with the 4.0 scale. This GPA was good enough ... *: * If you are not familiar with Wii MarioKart, either youtube what these ... Meadows. It's still smooth cruising like Luigi Circuit, but there are some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011