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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start ... MIT, I wanted to build robots. My heroes were Rodney Brooks and Marvin

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  'm bleeding this about my awesome 120-mile bike trip with Tester Lab. I ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... they were all my classmates, but I wasn't there! I just whimpered, "but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... every now and then, sure, when I saw my friends who were in frats enjoying ... Sophomore Spring, when my friend Noah R. '27 completed the pledge process and

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  my projects since they were so hellish! what i do remember are the ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my other friends who also had no commitments. my last class was the morning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only ... that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music, there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This blog is an effort to share the journey with you as I shed my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  5 years ago on November 28, 2020, it felt like my entire world was 15 steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my cozy 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, measuring my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I Made MIT-ish ASMR you're welcome (i'm so sorry)

  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece ... , I also discovered that, good news, I wasn’t sleeping through 90% of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first… up until two weeks ago! After talking with my current research ... tomorrow lmao"]finishing up[/annotation] my PhD application for the chance to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first ... long time, with my writing, with my fiction, with this blog. Life is less

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth ... vacation. "Welcome to New York" wasn't my favorite song on 1989, but maybe it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time as much time as possible with people. i'm most productive on my own ... it didn't interfere with my academics too much. i spent very little

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... , checking for sign errors or gaps in understanding. This is not my favorite ... , racing the clock.  My favorite part is not simply being finished, either

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... building numbers - 83%. To assess my final knowledge of the MIT building ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student." I had just finished my FPOP, started making new friends, and decided my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  "]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka ... . Here's what I did! 11:30-12 I met with my supervisor for the Japanese tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] i still have those quotes hung up in my ... to subMIT my app!!”) in the additional comments #quirky what didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  your MyMIT account. There will be no interim screens, so you should be ... 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My ... receive their decision! If you've forgotten your MyMIT username and

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020