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• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  It’s my [annotation note="yes, this is inspired by Amber’s lovely ... resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an ... especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  right now -- because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  why it’s separated from the rest. Anyway, here it is. It’s over 40 ... comments appear after the break: https://youtu.be/0Hj5mS2kdkI 00:45 The ... three points it hit the ground, but now it’s also supported by the walls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  everything that’s happened since we last met, mostly focused on the developing situation at MIT. He’d already heard (it’s hard not to be constantly plugged in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one ... ?” I look up and he’s holding this cup. So I’m like “Yeah, that’s me.” And then he’s like “Yeah, you’re in here all the time. Well, we

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... fulfilling.    shit. it’s been 28 minutes. i should choose a topic quickly. maybe i can write about how i’ve joined Burton Conner’s Transition Team so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  knee cap, well, chances are you'll still be fine: "It’s been about two ... grandpa’s best friend’s hand as we made it through the hospital. My mother ... therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle’s ... woman made a face. “PI?!” “Did you say PI?!” “I said it’s like pi,” I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a ... old me. There’s change in the air too, and with every breath I take ... ? Well, now you will. First and foremost, there’s excitement. I’ve had the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... talk about my and Cory’s apartment garden, and why my radishes won’t grow (it’s not cold enough). I tell her about how my peas died, and how the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question ... wrote to a friend (oversentimentally as always--that's me! No limit!) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has a single now and it’s pretty huge. I low-key hate him. “Eric ... there because we were too cold. “Do people eat at Domino’s?” Eric mused

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  "antiquarian book" is, the Fair’s website has got you covered. Such a book is one ... books from as early as the 1400s to as recent as the 1980s, but ... ). According to the Fair’s website, “the value might derive from the edition, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons glide slowly along the planet’s surface. The quivering black dots on the ... for Valentine’s Day, we watched a documentary for more on nuclear

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... spork is titanium, light, and little. But what’s not little is the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  street from the 13th century St. Elizabeth’s Church. It’s pretty surreal ... ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in ... , S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ü, ë, ä, ß. I come, you come, he/she comes, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  , but the project has been limping along in the summer haze. It’s looking a little anemic right now (maybe it’s heat exhaustion. Or maybe it’s ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014