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• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... about not having been offered an MIT interview, which I now know was just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same ... did in fact see waitress again this past Saturday!!! We invited our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have ... feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... 's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... that big a deal). There was a knock at the door, and she wheeled in the ... on the airplane. One of the options in the weirdly niche selection was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... built a radio telescope that could fit 57 tennis courts. Bell was put in charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... in. I barely wrote during the spring, save for my intensive writing class, in which I still struggled to write most of my essays. Regarding

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... enough along in it now to explain what it's been like from my perspective

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage ... them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... , if at all. I was lucky if I knew half the words in the title. Sophomore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in ... -baked hell, but i did make tea. in fact, i brewed myself at least four liters

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022