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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an ... street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... their lentil dal. Over March Break, I met my parents in LA, hit up so many

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... I wanted some time where I wasn’t tied down in one place. So I packed ... night, in Flagstaff, I remember sitting petrified inside my car in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... rest of the essay? do I really need it?" Can you post your essay? In ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... details in the Joke Bezel that I didn't quite catch but here is a picture of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  call, or maybe even in person in the distant future. I can hear the ... is gone, in the past, and I can’t reasonably expect to return to square ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post, this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019