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

  

  an engineering firm, or wherever else I can apply to with my sanity ... "]last six years[/annotation] as I’ve tried searching for jobs, internships, or ... too hard out of fear the lines will drag me down with them, I see a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  [annotation note="Hence the connection with my friend CJ. I am his hallmate ... student orientation, I (along with all the other internationals) ate in the ... expanded my scope in search of good food. Kendall Square? [annotation note

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  students here do a UROP? I worked with C. elegans all four years here ... MIT. President Hockfield visited my dorm and I got to talk with her at ... LSC movie screening - again, one of those things that you do over and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... : save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  have much experience with dating altogether, and dating in college can be ... forbidden. In college, I suffered two difficult, awkward conversations with ... other--they both responded with equal and opposite awkwardness. As you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  be countered with one titled "The Maintainers: How Bureaucrats ... Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... 's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with ... applicant from years ago who wrote about his deep obsession with King ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , canceling all in-person classes with over 250 people. The email mentions CPW ... to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many ... ="Campus Preview ~wildcard~"]CP*.[/annotation]The month of April abounds with long

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... data, you are liable to draw conclusions consistent with the data but ... 't. What we prefer are things which may coincide with higher SAT scores. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  magnetism with vector calculus and things. I really like it. I am drowning ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... it hits a new low, and slowly it climbs back. Students graduate with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in your entire application ;P), especially with the "Pleasure" essay. The ... -Ray order, Mr. Park searched in vain for Radiology in a blinding flurry of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My ... is a large place, with a middle school and secondary school. A market ... , children, come to Muti for school. Many will live with relatives or rent

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• 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 easier than ever to share new information with others. But despite this ... educational opportunities out there. So with the help of many other students

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's oldest, largest puzzlehunt, an event where hundreds of teams, with sizes ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... about themselves. We see team ☃, pronounced "Unicode Snowman", with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  home to nine different floors with unique cultures, histories, and traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus ... that I could have one fun year with people I really vibe with before

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math ... esp runs. i talked about my involvement with esp before; we’re the same ... sixty or so years we’ve been around. i’m helping out with our country

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  lower than the dorms, while maintaining the style of living with a bunch ... -year housing. I did so with full acknowledgement that I might end up disliking it ... I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... mention her experiences with housing instability, homelessness, and women ... they stayed with close friends. A lot of these articles, including her

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  competition that day. Not with a teacher or a team or anything, just none of us ... still) I was alone in my room with my dog on my bed. I had her there for ... went outside with our laptops. I vividly remember sitting outside the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  those large metal cylinders on the platform that I’ve played with, walking ... Stud together so he can pick up some food and I can meet up with Jason ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020