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

  

  are the reviewers taking a bored, cursory glance at the first page and ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... , reminding me of the person that could do things effortlessly and successfully

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  pieces. These are our first two decompositions of the two superfigures and ... , and ∑"2. ∑'1 and ∑'2 are the first decomposition of each superfigure ... of them and reading books and books and books about a third. My first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... .mit.edu. The page stuttered. And sputtered.   And spat out some text ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  broken, went to europe for the first time, and now im a senior. im kind of ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... could go to the Museum of Fine Arts and talk about all the artwork. We ... can go to a library and get one of the rooms. And we'll talk, quietly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  , there were two important requirements: the first was to be baptized, and ... , and didn't think twice about it. He became a member of the church. He shared testimony about hearing the voice, and the other members of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... that solved this puzzle, and that's years and years of stories. The way ... the theme of the Hunt, and what it'd look like, with writing teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... October of the first semester, midnight quasi-philosophical discussions ... tired and full of the next thing you have to do and the last thing you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Victoria Secret website. First change, a new little block of text above the ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... of major stars and constellations and some terminology covering the ... messenger chat that was always active, and a room in the fourth floor of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such-and ... probability of serendipity, and I suppose that's how you should describe the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  the public interest. And in this case, when the threat of being denied ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of ... established the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, argued that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  a website that revealed an entire page of coded words. We decoded the ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying ... time, and waded down the length of the plane, my bags smacking the knees

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... . Turns out this isn't even the first incident of students intentionally ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  biosynthesis, effects, and metabolism of melatonin. 10:56-11:03 -- Run to the ... , and the Senses. Professor James has assigned us one of her own papers to ... replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  approximate breakdown of the jobs I've applied to and interviews I've actually ... end of November, and have decided where I'm going for next summer by the ... year."]go home[/annotation] and recharge for the summer. All of these are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... ;   During my first CPW, at the MIT Professor Talent Show, Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... scenes, people, and places--nothing that encompassed the whole time period

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr ... institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023