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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter, president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  UROP" to anyone who asked about summer plans, when truthfully I had no idea what to do. Then some time during March or April, I heard two ... and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  I've stopped listening to Jenny's cozy destress vibes playlist while ... ."]psychoanalyzing the bloggers[/annotation] long enough to tell you that Early Action ... GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when ... carpet covered with tissues, wonder why you bothered to work so hard when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  shudder every time I look back on [annotation note="Intro to Probability"]6 ... freedom to choose what classes I want to take now that I'm close to ... "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the ... plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  day to school. Even in those days MIT announced their decisions earlier ... than I did that they had been admitted. I had to wait until my envelope got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  seeks to empower young Sri Lankan mothers made pregnant through rape and ... recognition. Alia has also led many other programs relating to poverty, women’s rights, and race relations. She plans to do the M.Phil. in development

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008