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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... superintendent. As much as there were "I can get through this, I've been through ... waste away instead. I've already gotten used to the fact that my hometown

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  rare that the piece felt too valuable to publish. I would’ve kept the ... switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... to go out and record my adventures. I’ve gone to some events

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  hardest exams I've ever taken and I had to use everything I knew to do the ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary calculations, I've failed the class. And with my current MIT track record, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  I no longer think so. I've seen friends graduate still feeling like ... belief that you don't belong, that you're a fraud, that you've been lucky ... . Imposter's Syndrome is rampant at MIT. Maybe you've already felt it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  , Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... opportunity to travel. Having grown up in a Christian home, I've heard about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  EVERY dorm. Don't let stereotypes you've heard stop you from checking out ... 30% of women at MIT are affiliated. Throw out everything you've ever thought about Greek Life, nearly every pledge I've met this year has said

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... agony and achievement that psets inspire, I've painstakingly scoured the ... , that's a tough one. But we've also written a lot about figuring out how

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... Grey's Anatomy after you've had the worst two exams of your life and are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work ... . I don’t think I’ve necessarily gotten worse, but I have felt a lot of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... , but I've never reflected on or blogged about programming. I struggled ... frustration led me to make qboard. When I thought about what I've made up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this ... ; i've never seen or handled a literal brimstone"]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . I’ve seen those features before and always wondered, what type of ... I’d realized.[annotation note="It helps a lot if you’ve already taken ... , did the upperclassmen struggle like I’ve been? How did I not notice it

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... confidence they’ve built through hard work; a steadier confidence, less prone to shattering. He phrased it better than that. I’ve never seen myself

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

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage. I’ve been fortunate to travel to over 35 cities and 20 states on behalf of MIT. I’ve driven through deserts, onto ferries, in downpours

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... confident that we’ve averaged about two per day since October 27, so maybe I ... all time - and I’ve been eagerly awaiting its arrival for months. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've ... because you’ve been accepted and your life is complete, or because you’ve

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth:   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I've ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've ... 't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of ... eventually and go out into the world. Once we've graduated, we wear the rings

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  scientist, but I'm also something of an engineer, and I've learned to be one ... bio classes, I've taken 18.03 (Differential Equations), 6.001 (Structure ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  other rejections. Since then I've thought a lot about this concept of ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of breakthroughs that I've had is understanding that [annotation note="The real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019