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

  

  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 likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  writing about my life at a school of technology. Also, they erased all my ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007