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• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... that they would be shocked if i didn't get accepted. there's something ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... are just a part of growing up. And it's somewhere that I thought I would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  choice because we didn’t know which groups would respond in time and weren ... the concert, which would’ve been painful and would have resulted in very ... different locations would hear different mixes. then i had the idea of setting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could ... told him China. I did not ask if he would have posed this question had I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I ... minutes, I gave in and pushed the orange button. The nurse fluttered into ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  know or learn the language). People in my high school would forget that I ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... descent in wikipedia rabbitholes [three cool rabbitholes i found: marathons ... thought. If I really buckled down it would be hard, but I'd be able to do it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  it stayed in java i would not be a 6-3 right now. i love typescript ... would've enjoyed it. i keep wondering, would i have liked it more? and in ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  7 countries in Europe :p) but I know there might still be awesome pics ... 'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come! You'll have at least 2 weeks to send them in. :) Will post when I get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... being in five days or something, yes? Yes. When I got into MIT, I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... time I've ever felt like I was back in high school despite being in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... basically the moment I read it, there was no question in my mind that I would ... in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  !) question you ask as honestly as I would if I were the one asking.  second ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014