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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of ... somehow transmogrified into electronic PDF format. On the plus side, this

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... writing flowery little paragraphs about them and the memories I’ve made on or crossing them, then assigning them a score based on nothing but my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... lane on the Freeway and couldn’t help but check. Almost crashed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  began following the lives of Ben, Matt, and Mitra. Soon after, Sam and I ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate ... MIT or is there now: give yourself a break to LIVE. Take stretch

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  . Pre-registration is about helping you figure out what classes you want to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... submitted my Fall 2019 pre-registration on May 1 because I knew exactly what

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... working on various projects involving educational/digital media literacy ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  reflecting on these similarities has helped me pinpoint some attributes that I ... myself to move on, and that makes it worse. 3 Two people that helped me ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on ... I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What ... living through a pandemic. And we were being forced off campus. With ... dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... occasional art festivals. On the other, just beyond the Harvard Bridge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate. There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... more vulnerable than usual, and everyone picks up on it, because a breach

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... throughout the post, in case readers want to explore more context than we could

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023