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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Pidgin English, “oya Vincent swim” and pushed me. He didn’t do it nearly ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... ’s Meno, the night before my Anicent Greek Philosophy class—to tell me that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  like math and science."   This definitely hits home for me. At MIT, nearly all of my friends had a duality of passions: Chemical Engineering ... people like me who were all over the map: math, architecture, education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading ... of a committee table we had hauled into his office.) It was nearing 5PM

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two ... but useful for me -- for example, an IRC bot that broadcasts shuttle

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Chemistry class nearly drove me to madness this semester: I kept telling ... . Personally, this makes me feel claustrophobic, and a little sad. MIT is near ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... ) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto ... pumpkin exploded and a piece hit me.  Multiple pieces, actually. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... just a few months or years older than me. I wasn't convinced I was a ... 2014 you ever did meet. She told me that at MIT, everyone was "the smart

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... . Anecdote 1: My family came to visit me about a year ago. My mom was always

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  . MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at East Campus but realized it wasn’t you” nearly every other week.  

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

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... cost very much and would serve me well. But I was not rejected from MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  by the idea that someone ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD ME that I nearly started ... perfect to me: my favorite activities are writing and teaching, I love all ... has made me feel like an imposter in the science research community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... floated towards me. “Hi there!” “Hi,” I said, pivoting away from the ... possibility. Opportunity. Another future opened itself to me, sparkly and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was ... sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... 't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... the exoskeleton with the knife, I nearly flung the roach across the ... system The abdomen was the most interesting part for me because it had the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how ... it cool. #embarassing"]I broke my foot.[/annotation] My dad told me that he found me crying one day, wearing my new boot, saying, “I only

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  , the blogs were not nearly the beast you see them to be now. I was ... this job. I loved the blogs very much, because they not only allowed me to help incredible people applying to college, but they also gave me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014