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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  science/technology, but also a very strong interest in some aspect of the ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  history of Stanford University. There's a lot else but that's a rant for ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  look for universals. Often are gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of ... three weeks, I've been spending most of my free time on medical school

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art community here. Being members of the visual arts community here, we are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  out, but the fear of missing out. in mit, like in any other university ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012, and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014.']LITERALLY 10 YEARS.[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  , dangling with flags from all of District 7’s many universities and colleges ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  It's no secret that Course 6-3 (Computer Science) is one of the most ... 2017 term. That's roughly a fifth of the undergrad population (that ... -3 often has a fair bit of stigma as a "sellout" major, since it's a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But ... conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... really transformed into the type of person who leads those headache

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons, human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025