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• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your application, stressing and laboring over tiny details. If you’re like me, you ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to prove that I could, even if it meant sacrificing my physical and mental

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then more people came into the little station and it became fuller and then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I know, as well as a poignant and accomplished blogger. Enjoy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... -wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it, and ...  Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it from. Here are some sunsets from our living room.     And here are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... naievete and fomo until i met chris, who deletes almost every email she

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024