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• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  time when the Admissions office isn’t quite finished working with the ... have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t ... checking out, if I don’t say so myself. I will point out that the podcast

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much ... field was COVERED IN GOOSE SH!T. Put your hands out, palms up. Pretend ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  sense. I don't feel as concerned about anything. I don't feel the pressure I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... .390 Introduction to Machine Learning I generally liked this class, but I didn't like ... or techniques don't get adequately proven, and there's some level of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  months, and 21 days"]minute.[/annotation] My blogger avatar hasn't changed ... true about me then and remain true now: I don't drink coffee or ... sciences & humanities, and I currently can't see myself going back to a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... somehow don't have any better options than what I'm currently doing. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don't ... choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the ... haven't seen in a while was visiting boston. since i had nothing scheduled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  very cool folks. Black t-shirts and chains, ripped jeans and leather ... advertising riding lessons. A few accident lawyers were distributing free t-shirts with their firms printed on the front. There were artisan stalls too: t

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images ... ="attachment_68540" align="aligncenter" width="225"] harvard isn't safe from me either[/caption]

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... , getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  freshman year who I just didn't spend enough time with because I was preoccupied. I didn't go to a lot of parties with other freshmen or to dance ... time. I also didn't attempt to build relationships with many

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... Japanese than I was three years ago. I definitely couldn't solve a single ... 's possible that this isn't what learning actually is. But when I look back at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other ... 've been waiting to take it forever. It turns out that I don't remember any

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this ... semester. Or, maybe I wouldn't have – I had my [annotation note ... -fall-me, she didn't have any idea what "balance" at MIT looked like, for her

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

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  every week. Obviously, that hasn't happened. But I've also had weeks where ... extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle it or b) absolutely have to. But even with (b), I don't recommend it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... memes or naps. I didn't truly appreciate the value of either of these ... particularly wanted to study at MIT. I didn't look at the course catalog too

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time ... ) But it wasn’t all bad. We dug up so many memories, pictures, and projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  acutely along the definitional dimensions of a) and c) above. This isn't the ... when your body is injured or exhausted, because it hurts and it can’t do things it usually can. When I went to the gym this morning and couldn’t

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  works for you. Strange things happen to people who don't verify they will ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] don't be surprised; verify![/caption] If you've forgotten ... , and don't email that address unless you've tried everything else

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go ... , even though I didn't expect that going in. On behalf of the entire

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016