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• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  working in England this past summer, I had a goal of visiting all four ... glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ... , before LOLcats and chocolate rain. Ladies and Gentleman, I have found such a way. Thanks to the Internet Archives, I've managed to pull up some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  is ostensibly a CPW entry, I guess I should talk about my CPW. Overall ... Senior Haus; I hung out with the chat group a lot and, in doing so, didn ... here in my senior year. I will continue to keep that in mind, but like a

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , visited startups in the Boston/Cambridge area to see what a real nascent ... goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... first time I've felt burned out in a (metaphorically) clinical way, so it ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... heard before, there's a decent chance I can figure out what it means ... can have a gut feeling about what a word you've never heard before in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  're talking ages ago, so long that I almost forgot it even happened. Before we ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a ... . Instead of writing words, I decided to steal a page out of Jess Kim's book

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  practice - until it was the night before a big test, when I shored myself up ... gaps that I can fill in between classes, which, as a sophomore, are ... . In fact, you could call it a corollary to that folksy wisdom that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  the cake for the floor residents, and when we checked back in a few ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its ... Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about ... :) I have fabulous friends, and I'm proud of what I've done so far in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed ... professor of astronomy. In between, I spent a couple of years as a postdoc ... before my move, I was told that “nobody [is ever ready for a faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... sophomore year, and I had a job offer in hand by mid-November. I didn't really ... employed was what me a worthy MIT student. I literally only wanted to get a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  locate you in our system and reset your password within a few days. What if ... ... actually, we’ll probably have decisions posted a minute before 2pm ... decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  what I can and can’t say, and the stress was all a bit too much.  Aside ... felt like I needed to live more life and read more before I had a right ... worth it, and I think maybe you should consider it too. 0) What counts

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  biking and cave hiking, I found myself sitting in a Gondola on my way back ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm. Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a ... I was in an independent living group (sort of like a sorority or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that ... before I moved on in my mindless wandering. Eventually, I decided to stop ... that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... . A big tear welled up in his eye, and he said: "you know, that's what ... there is in me. I remember when I told him last year that I'd gotten

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... , but my feet do step step step. one step less than i should have. the next

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020