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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…

  

  days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... incredibly rejuvenating when used correctly. In fact, this seems to be the answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 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 with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  thoughts. I wouldn't even reread or edit my papers, just turn them in and ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... something that's better than what used to be there before (which in my case

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving ... words, if you are lucky enough to have a singular greater vision or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  penned articles titled ‘Homeless to Harvard’ or some variation of that ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in ... to be painted in detail to fully appreciate its gore.  One of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... since coming to MIT. And they're all really great jobs. I work desk in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  forward or backward at a particular moment. But that tends not to happen in ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  out of angst or in hopes of pity; I tell it to share my personal ... 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 / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  late engaged in deep conversation, or skipped studying to hang out with ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... major in Brain and Cognitive Science, wanted to become involved in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or chemistry through positive experiences with intro classes in high school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or ... . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  students do). Anyway, to anyone I may have met in NYC, or in Washington DC ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... revisions). Date reindexing made it possible to visualize a weekly pattern in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018