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

  

  in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... anyone else has had a chance to speak. In my emails asking for letters, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... Another thing I did for fun in high school was filming dumb movies and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  for 5.60 (thermo). There are about ten students in my section, and our ... break in Cambridge, the dorm's hot water has been finicky for the past few ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... seniors, thank you for all you have done in the past four years to make MIT ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  disease") and Takeshi Makino of the Safety Detective Agency in Osaka ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  out of touch for periods. I think the main shift in mindset that has ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... . Adam designed the airplanes in Solidworks, optimizing for easy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  same time, in many ways, it is the sign I am looking for when I feel like ... waiting at the MGH station around 5:00 PM, waiting for the train to come in ... stopped for a second, taking in the sight, music still blasting in my ears

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  performers gather in Talbot Lounge and pray. They pray for salvation, for MIT, for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God ... , I suppose, is MIT. For where two or three are gathered in my name

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers ... University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  alumni interviewers in NYC and Larry coordinates the interviews for ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog ... research, did well (enough) in my classes, and had a lot of fun. And for a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... also represented the discovery of a formula for success in the admissions ... also a good core principle for life. Most of us want people in our lives

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011