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• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  puts their faith in you, they do so believing that there is potential in ... get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  . that there is a life to live without the people i discovered my life with—is ... very eternal-sunshine-of-a-spotless-mind-coded way, i do now think that ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  would've never thought I could do something like this in high school, and ... ="89479" image5="89478" image6="89477" /] P.S.: Why do I look like I'm giving a ... This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow ... overwhelm you with a vignette of my 1000 photos from the trip, I'll say that

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am ... well at so far in my life? Is it a career that I feel aligns with my ... career). Vienna is a reminder that despite everything that I have said in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of ... design tasks that come with this, they do take up quite a bit of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit ... skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... was in the kitchen. We were talking when I saw that it changed, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . I've found that my writing is better when I'm in a mental state ... essays? The trick is that there isn't a trick to it. I can tell you what ... . But I enjoyed it. A side effect has been that I've been seeing psets in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... , objectively, but for me it’s a big deal. I finally have HBO access. Another in ... something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  getting into any school. But even in that case, all you can do is be ... Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... clingy on one person/place/thing. I'm in a relationship at the moment

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of ... mean, it's something I need to do. But who I am is more than that. How do ... that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen ... themselves. Little do my campers suspect that they may actually be in for a ... Putz): "I'm working in the Media Lab's Tangible Media Group on a new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  because any job is a good job. I do not expect to get a job out of ... 'm doing it to myself: no one else is. And maybe that's what I need, but I ... and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus (Part 1) despite everything, it's still you.

  

    I told myself that I wouldn't make a part two but this is taking so ridiculously long that I think I have no choice. Hopefully it ... me in the comments, I will fix them.   Update: part 2 is out

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 29, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  the Last Dance For Me. I must say that I do like the crooners. (Michael ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... Opera is something I enjoy, and I'm happy that I've seen some Cantonese

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014