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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  frustrated, I sometimes wonder if I’m cut out for it at all, which can be so ... -- there can be fixes. At the end of the day, I really believe that research ... sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  they don't graduate. In fact, I can't think of a single one off the top ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be ... top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next

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

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , so happy that I can experience something similar through front-end work ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  flurry. I can’t access that mindset now. Here's what I looked like then ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  happened at the same time, from shenanigans I can only hint at, to ... 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 / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024