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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... they're getting married, it's just a funny story.)(Which, uh, wasn't ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  couldn't imagine living anywhere else.) This stretch of time is perfect for ... don't know where I'll be living. I don't know what I'll be doing. I hate ... thinking about right now. (Don't be surprised. I just said I'm afraid of life

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it ... doesn't matter. *gasp*! MIT, not matter?! Now don't get me wrong, I ... that one, even though when I was in your spot I probably wouldn't have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... . Why? Because it comes with a side of mashed potatoes. You just can't ... 's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know primarily high schoolers read the blogs, many freshmen do as well. I won’t ... . I have no measure of how this post will be received (sometimes I don’t

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... 've been working on a novel [annotation note="Don't ask me how much I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... application, one that was fragile and vulnerable. So when I wasn't accepted, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  professor. “But,” you might ask, “aren't bloggers supposed to love MIT?” I guess sometimes they don't. I couldn’t go through with the transfer ... murals on our. Because I couldn’t imagine classes I loved at MIT anywhere

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... didn't want to be the guy who inquired about GPAs, or put my resume or ... last place" kind of deal didn't jibe with me. And I guess it didn't jibe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Mitra did. I think Mitra definitely did. :) Adam and I actually didn't go ... at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like ... every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... checked the protein after the transfer, it wasn't there. Probably it ran away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don't ... demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks, you don't "need" a bunch of APs. Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't take them, just that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself ... that not every t shirt needs to be altered. I tell myself that it's time ... idea can't even remotely be attributed to me. If anything, it's just a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can’t ... ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... ; I enjoyed the lesson but didn’t see a kettle bell again for months ... lot of stepping on and off of chairs. I didn’t really know how to set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  really stupid" or "Yeah, I don't understand anything at all" as crutches ... reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  I usually don't write "DECISIONS ARE DRAWING NEAR!" posts, because ... you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily ... of action, I don't really have the self-discipline for it. When I try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  as me, and she has the same last name too, so that wouldn't even help. Isn't that weird? Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to tell ... about throwing myself into a waterfall, but decided MIT didn't need to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT ... exciting picture of what you're doing this summer! You don't have to be in it, although it would definitely be preferred. :) (ie. don't be like me and send

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we understand that we can't be everywhere!] Even if you are applying elsewhere via

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008