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

  

  course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either ... horoscopes, which is, “Horoscopes are pretty stupid but they’re fun because you ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both ... . “He’s alright Billy, he can stay. Give the lad ‘is key!” My room looks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• 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.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... day is filled. Where is the time to catch up on material that you ... is about learning to take care of yourself. Well, as much as I hate to

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

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

  

  our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere. It is impossible to abstract out all of my emotions, my experiences ... post is too short--rather, even if I were told to sit down and write a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... probably be called Adjustment is a Process. The subtitle would be Give ... take a Freshman Essay Evaluation, which is meant to test writing and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how ... the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here ... whatever they want. This year, Splash happened on [annotation note="so why is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... , which is a lot more efficient. But here are things you SHOULD bring: 1 ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... be mildly gross, so viewer discretion is advised.   Basic Stats

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... . Working too much is easier than working too little. Takes the pressure off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  (emphasis added): Not sure if this is possible, but maybe having an anonymous ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and ... TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a high honor, but it is one which I received."]play in the all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  May 1, 2019, but registration won't open until August 26. This is ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... . Pre-registration is about helping you figure out what classes you want

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below ... . Editor's note 6/17: "The comment is reproduced here with permission by its

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... really understand why it is such a hard question to answer. but maybe this

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... academic career, which is tough because there are empty spaces in more than ... using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009