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  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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

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

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . collectively remove grey hairs (disclaimer: I actually didn’t believe the math that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014