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• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of ... and let the time pass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yAEUp9v6M Days

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... things too. That's right – the same sticking-together rocks holding papers ... with many doors, and cats walking through the open doors. Each door has a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last ... ’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday ... 's weird to think that next year, my friends will be scattered around the ... effort. as the weeks of this semester have passed, I feel like I've been

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... of my days as a competitive programmer, when the time complexity of an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  It's 6:30am. The natural lighting floods in past the courtyard, filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous one) room. The camera once again pans around the room, revealing a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year's apps are open) was "when was the first time you really felt like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since ... taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New ... . . . well . . . it seemed annoying, and I wasn’t really sure how much the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the ... closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up, and the pain was still there. I felt hot. I held my hand against my neck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... note="Congrats! You made it!"]meet the early action deadline[/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  appear as the same verbal upchuck. hello! my name is cami, i'm 17 years ... . the wacky architecture, the quirky personalities, the mens et manus ... myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  ="alignnone" width="652"] A free organ!![/caption] Step 2: Alert the Others Make sure people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked ... graduating this year I am still on the email list for the year I entered MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... find something she’d recognize.   But the “hola”s from home, the kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  junior year, I stuck with the clubs I cared about the most and learned more about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs ... planning events and teaching kiddos. By the end of senior year, I was super

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019