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

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’m glad you’re excited to get to work and dive into this new life ahead of ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... journalist.  Second, you don’t talk to your friends from Minnesota anymore

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  the other things I simply had to do. On April 5th, 2013, I presented on ... Tsarnaev brothers had used on Thursday, and down to Watertown Square, where ... Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  tiles on the ceiling, your hair brushing the dirty carpet, your feet dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on ... of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is ... victories and your shortcomings, to an admissions committee. The person who

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... brain cells to write something thoughtful right now, but submitting your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model ... amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As ... a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  just talking a problem out is enough to offer new insights on it. I cook ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... like a farce, like a four-year-long audition, and then we would go on to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... like that every week. Maybe it’d make more sense to plot it on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on

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

  50 Reflections

  

  , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of ... opinions on whatever I happened to be working on. The big reason our

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  soften on the asphalt if you stand around. You’re three hours past a ... ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014