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

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people ... these, it’s hard to see the difference six years has made outside of, well

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That ... , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... that I had sent an e-mail to the professor a couple of weeks ago about a ... hope to get out of the job. Make sure you've done your research on what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... centering the Department of Economics, this display chooses to center one of ... entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... likely to come to the minds of people. In short, it lends itself to group ... terms of class composition. Students who were admitted tend to think the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... journals, computer scientists tend to submit to conferences because of the ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... just included to reference MIT, and the numbers of the stocks in the ... (thanks to anon for suggesting this). The map of the Cambridge/Boston area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do tons of events throughout the year to connect students and grow together ... the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , past the bottle of hand sanitizer and signs indicating which doors to ... Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... a network of robotic telescopes to investigate the violent deaths of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of us roll in the chairs from our cubicles to maximize our comfort ... of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... , going to the Weekend was correlated with enrolling. One of the important ... the Reports to the President. The Tech had some sort of "welcome

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... the meantime, I am left to question whether any of it was worth it. Am I ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... rebuttal/resubmission than to deal with the cesspool of guilt and anxiousness ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... (using the pistol target, because we lost a day of practice to snow). One ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to ... phone. 1 minute to go. The air around me was completely still. Instead of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... again, now facing Cambridge. MIT is just to the left of the frame.   And

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