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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... 'd even been assigned a dorm room, I announced that I was pretty confident

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ’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

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... classes! That day, dear readers, was today. So here's a post all about ... chillier than May feels like it should be. I walked a little further this day

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across the[annotation note="Terrain being a word which here means: the view outside my window."]terrain,[/annotation]like a deer across the savannah

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I ... be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 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 ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread.  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Peter Diamond among a few others. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• 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 ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... friendly conversation amongst each other, I preemptively take out a headphone

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• 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 ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... —you’d probably realize that we’re related. More than a few people have approached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• 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"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011