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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... post-MIT) experience. Identifying as a hipster-sans-the-fashion, I

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

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I ... precursor snow from my Gmail background is falling outside my window. I got sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... naturally I started dreaming about all the awesome custom furniture I could make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month. Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  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