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• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  ’d wake up tired and disoriented, briefly unable to discern dreams from ... and hands, with no direct cause to point to. Well, except there are ... classes and my activities and my living community I equally wish I could

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  deceptively beautiful Boston Spring. Even though I woke up at 1pm (and immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep ... skies and shimmering waters. Unfortunately for me, I had no time to enjoy

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting ... spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and ... me and I’m looking forward to experience it all over again! This post

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my ... the last five years, the one with lunar rovers and Nobel Laureates and ... school in our conference, the NEWMAC, with 199 conference titles. And just

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There are always moments when you’re presented with a decision, and naturally ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... from experiments, and i could just focus on doing things. this past week ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  . As an undergrad senior who isn’t applying to grad school (yet) and has ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my life will look like.  Yet, right now as I sit and type this, I look a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  , Laureates and Leaders Induction Ceremony, East Campus social, and Simmons Hall ... pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  , tickets for the commuter rail bought, and our laptops ready for blogging, we begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution ... sounded really cool to me, and when better a time to try liveblogging than

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  , because i’ve never been good at rhythm games and have relatively slow ... , and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the ... patterns are designed to match the beats and rhythms of the song, so if

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to go to class due to fatigue. But the runny noses, cough drops, and Vicks ... it was due to the first two semesters being virtual. And sophomore year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... , where a lot of big Orientation and other events happen"]Kresge[/annotation] and learned the L’Hopital's Rule from [annotation note='MIT Open

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  . And . . . I put off filing these returns for nearly four years, because . . . well . . . it seemed annoying, and I wasn’t really sure how much the government owed me anyway, and it seemed annoying. Today, I finally got around

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  .001 and jointly scrolling through MIT Confessions. 2.001, a core class on ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through ... , because by then it’s late and we’re all a little hosed, longing for more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be fine, but of course, it's one thing to know and another thing to believe ... compelling. all the friends i asked to read it said it was pretty good, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... classes virtually and doing pretty much nothing else. it's weird. here ... 'm more organized — i've been taking notes on my beautiful new iPad and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020