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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  obscures virtually everything around it... ...was a two-foot-long tube ... In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as ... ," Pippin (2013 revival) Regardless, life continues as it always does, and in order ... static which sits inside my head, just behind my eyes. This noise makes it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... ;   I used to think that MIT was unnecessarily hard.  Certainly it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than ... course), “This does not seem trivial at all and some of us did not have ... -in-the-grand-scheme-of-time-and-space-type insignificant, as hard to avoid as it is.) 1) Stop. Collaborate and Listen. (Ice

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  happened to Jon '11. So, "critical point," how does that fit in? It seems ... , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  particularly loathe the phrase “work smarter not harder”, probably because it was ... that and putting it together into what works for me. I hate those cliche ... ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... -referencing it with how things worked back home. it was pouring when we came back ... favorite things about MIT is that i never know how my day will go. it never

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  miserable at times. The journey was hard, and very long. But I recommend it to ... every day. It rained, well, probably just as often as in other parts of ... money do not equal happiness So long as you have a certain amount of each

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  —that maybe i'm just misremembering how good it felt, or that i've just gotten ... year, it felt like a very long and fun afternoon hanging out with people ... content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How

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

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing with its performance? What about designing your own heat sink? Or maybe

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space ... about it. Literally every time you ask an MIT student how their week was ... , and how, through an unnecessarily labyrinthine analogy, the caked MSG

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  liked it and that feeling never went away.  [Kayode rambles about how he ... ; Back on topic, what does it mean to crash Tetris? Tetris is marketed as ... and it really ramped up in the last week.    How many people were

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  getting one. 10. kash asked, Hey, what kind of GPA does it take to get into ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... swear you're never going to fly again. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... been gone a long time but I was reminded of this story when I went out on fall travel this year. I long ago realized that both my parents are very

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  figure out what its function was and how it matched to the Nano. I made ... how I wanted it to. I had all of these parts already, but usually there ... fetus version of a full-fledged Tamagotchi—it was capable of walking

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  long-haired and mangy, and I wondered if it was aggressive. But it was ... my jacket not long after, for it began to rain. And rain. And rain. But ... It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be ... . People everywhere. Concrete rubble and garbage flow in waves down long streets; turn the corner and what was once a house lies in shambles. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  do feel rust because of how long it's been, it's been so fun to think ... much more. But I'm very excited to see how it goes c: I really, really ... many new experiences, and memories I will keep for a very long time. Here

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be, but also how much money will such a career much, does this career require formal education, if so how many years, do you need an MD, do you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016