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  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... doesn't stop me from starting this entry explaining why I decided that ... know that I absolutely *LOVE snow. I love snow more than MIT loves

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The ... the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual. I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers. For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6 ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the amount of work MIT students have. I usually respond that, while students

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I Have Before I Throw Up. Scary things Fear Level The dark 130 The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with ... most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time ... ! With this blog post, I'm pulling inspiration from something that Prof

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  content warnings: suicide mentions 98 days. I think oftentimes it ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... that there was just one tiny (read: stupid) error somewhere, but I couldn’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing crossword puzzles, seeing high school friends, and missing MIT. I had intended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling. The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once ... such an amazing place, distant because I didn’t seriously think that I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  This past semester, I’ve been going through the grueling process that ... already. Unfortunately, like I’ve mentioned before, my summer internship was ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006