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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... and peaceful at night. There would be lots of bunnies. I'd be surrounded

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to ... white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... really wish I had more faith in myself and believed that things would work ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . In summary, though, I would highly recommend taking a freshman seminar ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... three points, and then I will bend them to point in the fork-hat direction

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens ... fall in the next few weeks. i've spent the past few years as an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  roommate and I mentioned we lived in East Campus, people’s faces would often ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... famous writers. In fact, I remember prancing all dreamy-eyed past one of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles ... only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007