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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... was going on. She sympathized with how the sense of time gets completely ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... , and there wasn't anyone actually on the grass, so I got a full view of ... importance of teamwork and relying on others, or how to make decisions that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... today. And that’s the end of it. I’ll see you all on the other side of ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... behind on. All of them have been nothing but supportive and accommodating ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  surface of a pond -- if those people and that pond were on the moon."  3 ... ."  They got a bunch of volunteers to come on stage, and made them cry ... 's photos of the event are here, on flickr.)

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... your dream of being at MIT didn't become my dream on some small level

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  at MIT - you can really focus on getting a good grasp of the material ... year. On the interview trail, many of the most interesting applicants are ... do, go ahead and do it! One of the applicants I met on my Harvard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  decision hinges on that fundamental, ineffable question of what do I want to ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• 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 ... feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those ... is held there on Sundays. The surrounding villages have none of these ... to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• 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 ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of ... ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ?" was on a lot of mailing lists and all over Facebook. I had gotten close ... essentially a rejection. To cope, I focused on all the positives of the schools ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (pisces, cancer, aries, virgo, etc.) based on your date of birth in the ... eastern zodiac, a series of animals based on the year of birth in the lunar ... old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... beliefs. On top of the pressure I put on myself to succeed, the pressure my ... usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... having a lot of Greek on campus, but in recent years it has gotten smaller ... October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016