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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , and I tell myself again, just waiting and waiting for the moment to come ... ’t really mourned for the life i had since this all started, and i feel like i ... to do anything but check out and stare at a screen? I long for boredom

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

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

  

  , and the regressive doubts that hold me back -- making for zero net ... took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

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

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

  

  would go ice fishing for northern pikes and then dissect them. How has ... ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... barbeque and prizes for billiards and is mixing ice cream for the LN2 events ... Michael and all the food they got for you: Friday, August 23rd

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for high schoolers and middle schoolers in the area [annotation note="and ... mentors to my naive frosh self, and constantly looking for ways to improve ... inside and outside the club, including when i went to new hampshire for a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... bell by Elijah T. '11 14 years later by Yan Z. '12 MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School by Ahmed H. '12 Things change, but the friends

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel ... . At least they know what to expect to get for their birthdays and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... for Anime Music Video), pretending to be Pokemon trainers and biking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... . My legs and back have been supremely thankful for that. On the minus

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... breaks the bonds between capsaicin and taste buds). My personal favorite ... .  Voila! Serve with Jasmine rice and a sunny side egg for full authenticity

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... of building and configuring an 8TB server for them. It was nerd ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at ... . Other times I kept something on board for way too long and then wondered ... priorities – and for that I will always be grateful! But for exactly that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... working harder for the sake of it seemed stupid (and I still agree it is). But for those of you rolling your eyes and thinking right now I'm some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  I mean the difference between where she started and where she is now ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  and teacher, but rather between newly fledged adults and more ... -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for ... begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting ... extensions for every assignment in that class and, apparently, taking one or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  over some similarities between Mystery Hunt and these other forms of ... of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... people and Twitch streamers answer this question for inspiration. In The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district ... Boston cuisine restaurants inside and around it. For toy lobsters and other ... freshman”), it’s quite a convenient place, too. And for history lovers. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  things and the act of someone else rewriting your essay for you to the ... - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the ... piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007