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• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  didn't want to do anything; I wanted to crawl into a hole and never ... work to do that night, according to my to-do list, but I didn't manage to ... the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  professor or lab doing work that looks cool, and get in touch with them. I ... , explained that I was considering a major in her department, and asked if there ... 'd "heard" that I was interested in doing research with the group, and that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  course, I did what a lot of us do in the wake of new confidence. I ... do a lot in the water. I was able to move around, fin-less and floater ... wishing I could linger in a bit more, nothing seems to matter but that. The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in ... put my college years in a time capsule and save them in a way that I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The ... else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This ... FB group know what I'm talking about). The point is that you bring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... . I suppose that this tenet is somewhat ironic, given that I’m a writing ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... (I wasn’t) or engaging in self-harm (also wasn’t). I do know that ... in my corner, and I am reminded of that every day, but the takeaway is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  portray a certain pessimism that I've been encountering a lot lately being ... internationally, does not insist that you declare a major when you apply. This is a ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... observatory, and figured that I could lead a joint research/outreach life - do ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can ... ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and ... .     Over and over, I learn that the way I do best is when I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... present-day me. I wrote both parts in strokes of inspiration, something that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  all common pressures, ones I’ve certainly felt. The issue is that a lot ... dedicated to mentorship, a philosophy that is widespread in the department ... . We talk about “fit” a lot in undergrad admissions—that admissions is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  a time. And I'm hoping this will help. Writing, that is. Speaking ... that I am in your debt. I desperately needed a slice of home, of people ... video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  better in SIPB ourselves. I dream that one day, people will step up to be a ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023