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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Last August, the MIT Admissions blogs turned twenty. Over the past ... come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

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

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  . When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively energy with them. The room was quiet. Then, suddenly, the quietness was ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... , but the nearly unanimous excitement around campus leads me to dismiss

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... their spring 2010 edition) I should have died by now, considering the way I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... in the front row[/caption] Okay, so people were definitely dressed up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... 't belabor the point, as my position on the matter is well established. Suffice it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... the door, speed walking 9:38am miss the bus at 77 Mass Ave. 9:40am catch

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... are glossing over from all the acronyms (FRC, MOSTEC, RSI, ISEF, HSSRP ... cells", "graphene oxide filters", and "radiation shields." Among the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  naturally I started dreaming about all the awesome custom furniture I could ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... with a coffee table. I planned out the shape and size over IAP and bought

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  This past semester, I’ve been going through the grueling process that plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020