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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes, writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... through. Then, it’s also important to look closely at the situation, figure ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  . Entertainment. The closest major city to my town is St. Louis, which is two hours away. That made for a four hour round trip any time I wanted to go to a ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  added time in the weeks: 1 hour less of daily commute to and from campus ... mins 2 hours. go to class again. eat lunch. work for 5 4 hours. go to ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  hour to eat, go to the gym and take a fabulous shower, run an errand or ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only

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

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  (I heard that it takes ~10 hours to prepare a 1 hour lecture) and they ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  until the wee hours of the morning to obtain last minute results. It was ... come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  three years after writing that post, I had gone on to unlearn important ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  another. It's important that, as you enter as a class, you learn to be ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006