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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  classes, and the rest of the first day went pretty smoothly. We must learn ... purchases. During the first week of Spring HSSP, there weren't any huge ... directors and Cascade directors in the list of positions, but we didn't even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said ... be kind to yourself and others. MIT is probably going to be one of the ... this is upheld through the nature and culture of our school. It is our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  two types of first-generation children. The first kind didn’t appreciate ... saw the characteristic river and the unique scenery of Shanghai, I was ... , and sometimes with the daughter of my mother’s friend. That summer, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... needed to formulate the problem myself, to read lots of papers, and to try

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting ... How I blog - the writing and posting process Whether you should become ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  before her decision!"]enough,[/annotation]and they were, for the day of. I felt way less stressed than I thought and the whole thing went off really ... the ground for an hour and then go home. At home, the first thing I did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the past three months of blog entries, MISTI rocks and found me a summer ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  email in the middle of January and the social internet looks vastly ... felt guilty as soon as they spilled over onto the second page of the blog archives—and then the third. Every writer needs a different kind of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that ... summer are: The Name of the Wind, The Sword of Kaigen, Tomorrow and ... my roommate. We started the first season at the beginning of the summer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... , fantasizing about a place far away known as MIT, and the kind of things that I ... examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... you don’t. And one of my favorite quotes from the blog that resonated ... and Life Skills. The website provides a series of videos, quizzes, and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  perpetually watchful eyes of the internet and judgement as a whole. i also made ... first time commissioning art from people, and I had the following ... , and is set apart from the Major Arcana by being unnumbered. A first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... less so."]web development[/annotation] and the kind of code I wrote ... effects are. The cycle of doing something and seeing the result was short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart ... problem of “was valedictorian and suddenly isn’t the baddest fish in the sea ... don’t need my value and worth be lessened because of the things I’m not

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  weather, and frequent rainfall. The coming of the rains also signal the ... be felt droplets, and even the lightest of rains would be felt if you ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 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 / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  middle school, and the combination of such an inspiring professor with the ... meet the Prince of Morocco and you add "says Mohammad VI, Prince of ... of those dreams kind of got lost along the way, and as an MIT senior, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  script, you can add less of X and more of Y, and maybe double the whole F ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... and that's not the point!"]50 more rectangles.[/annotation] Kind of a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019