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

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  going to be different than the myriad of other competing essays? Too ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... robotics team, which used to be a fairly small club when I first joined, now ... raised. To be humble towards the people back home who wanted to see me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... memes. Remember how I mentioned puzzles could be about anything, like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  relationship with stress. When I was younger, I had what could be described as ... on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... bit more of this fresh air, and called my parents to say I'd be walking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and ... can be deceptive. For example, Massachusetts Avenue, which bisects the ... biking should not be an afterthought in roadway design" and will require

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a ... perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  non-vampire schedule. Don’t be like us. It is only ok to be nocturnal ... debates about AI. Learning to be alone is difficult. It’s tempting to ... entertain and take care of yourself. Relatedly, I recommend enjoying being

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’d be right. If that sounds anything like you, you’re probably a douchebag and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don ... nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  announced that all GRTs will be replaced with ravenous bears. You write an ... take notes. Your second class is having an exam, and it seems to be going ... being collected. You keep getting cryptic emails from a mailing list

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  if he’ll ever be able to write the way he did before. Finally, the film ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while ... come up with a list of friends and acquaintances who could be swayed into

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... out every single moment of my time here, for fear that it will be gone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn ... home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... do with distractions. Planning my time like this helps me be more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  year I would also be an active member of LuCHA, the Latin Students' Union ... was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared, homesick freshman, and how being away from home had really shaken my internal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next ... Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020