All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours
It’s okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can, please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much to handle, there’s no shame in distracting yourself with...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Not Admitted
There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Waitlisted
Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn’t accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the...
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Open Thread: Admitted
YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.
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MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you...
View ArticleAnd tomorrow brings a new day
Around this time of the year, we’re always told to write something decision-conscious, whether that be congratulating those who got in or consoling those who were rejected or deferred and waitlisted....
View Articlecontinuing
These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the...
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bday burnout
Some numbers from this semester: Academic week: 5 Age: 19.0 Times I’ve cried over classes: 2 (surprisingly) Smoothies made: 12 COVID tests taken: 11 Times I’ve been locked out: 3 (Unique) cats petted:...
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like a freight train
Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m...
View Articlewrestling with my ego
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 blogs instead # I took this class called 8.022, which is...
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a tour of New Vassar
This semester, I’m living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on MIT’s campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the general vibe is very modern and clean and shiny. Beyond...
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How to decide which classes to take
Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months in advance, here’s considerations on picking classes and schedules. This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for...
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Advisor vs. Advisee
So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and...
View Articlepathways
“it’s been a year since I last saw that person.” “it’s been a year since I was last in that room.” “it’s been a year since…” in the past few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we...
View Articletidbits
Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock-full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself repeating similar bits of information that I should compile...
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on the atlanta shootings
Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence, sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American...
View Articleplay dough
I’m a very Type A person, I’d say. I tend to need to be in control of things, get upset when things don’t go my way, or when things or people come later than they originally said they were going to....
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how do i button up this coat?
My brother’s not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words, “Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT.” It’s true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school...
View Articlereflecting on 2020 goals
In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make time and space for schoolwork and extracurriculars. I told myself that I would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and...
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just vibing
One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do...
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