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• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel ... . things are okay. things have been okay for a while now. i go to bed and ... least i don't feel bad either! and now this reminds me of a line from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  about the process from this point. For those of you who were rejected, I ... , absolutely, 100% FALSE. I honestly can't off the top of my head think of a ... , that's a lot of financial aid. I know several people from less advantaged

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  a personal anxiety: “I felt I should start something now so I can go ... , who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a lot while at MIT, from freshman orientation until now. I did not have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  more information for deferred students here; you can also read posts from ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  doubt the IAP trip was a major draw for students, but I am also very much ... night. I got a somewhat stern e-mail from my adviser's assistant the day ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  opportunities specifically in DC, but more for a dedicated living space away from ... usually just forget coding basics since I haven't been coding for a very ... call for her UROP, I just took a shower after doing another Chloe Ting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... large eyes that have tasted a life beyond what my sheltered palate can even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  from acting like human beings this is a very welcome respite” - steph “I ... MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... . I can read ten hours a day without any class or exam to do it for. I ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... booklets on topics ranging from sci-fi to personal memoir. I picked up a ... we voting for? Where are we putting our start-ups, what are we buying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next ... the other variables, like class. A lot of what I was mistaking for ... up my whole life plan and going for a Ph. D. literature, like the woman

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... , I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and ... feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group ... , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  from Groundhog Day”  After a week of orientation, I - embarrassingly ... due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... goodness for [annotation note="Since adjusting to MIT as a first year can be

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  looked like a monument. I gasped aloud when the Eiffel Tower emerged from ... pastries I’d ever had: croissants, a baguette, a squishy thing, a glazed ... . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  not use it for anything other than the leaderboard. A bug! I found a ... -dozen current students in a room with a bunch of pizza and soda for 48 and let them come up with a bunch of ideas for levels and build very simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... summer, where I'm doing an internship at a software company. I was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... . For instance, “Hmm, so if I mark an ethnic identity do I get a ... answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  , and an MIT alum my mother is very thankful for: (What can I say? The ... , anyway." "I'll probably be here for a while; I understand a bunch of ... , and I stopped taking pictures for a little bit. In all honesty, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009