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• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... try to do it with friends—food in college is a social experience. In ... and in college. True. Take it from a person who added a minor her

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  meeting, we were laughing about the confession, and a Blogger Who Must Not ... Nisha around campus a grand total of three times in all these months here ... I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... bed like I was a character in a movie. I watched the original music ... life in my head: myself in a cap and gown and silly little sunglasses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  undergrad, there is someone who has been where you are at some point in their ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ! Bite my nails less! This is a practical resolution, in one sense, and ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... , and the prospect of A's is almost heart-attack-inducing. I don't think ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  .[/annotation] Here at MIT, there is a system in place called Excused Absences, or, an ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... ." Graduate student in Australia (UHawaii MS) Veterinarian (Tufts DVM) "A ... as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ." And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit, not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... was a special day. E.M. ‘20   I was working on a final project in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will support ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011