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• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago. The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  're all made. I don't have a good way to end this post, so here is a ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  took four years of Spanish but I haven't used it since high school so I ... freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well ... ’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... , studying. That's probably how you already spent these past four years of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... , still bleary-eyed from finals, end up grafting ourselves onto their social ... names nontrivially affect the names they'll be known by. Many interns end

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to ... , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite

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

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about the future, plans, worry, all that. But I scratched

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  if he doesn't know what an enzyme is. My apologies if I end up ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  could easily look at as human-like. To this end, I refused to give it eyes ... This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fucking insecure. I trudged through high school with the belief that ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  writing yet at that point, but I ended up throwing together a slideshow of ... describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  sophomore year of high school. I felt as if I’d been transported to another ... attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... are typically released by the end of June, and the Court usually

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... East Side, I’ve adjusted well to low-income living. Stuyvesant High ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008