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

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... displays everywhere I looked. As a New Yorker, I have some desire to avoid ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... , there’s a perfectly flat surface from the hatchback to the front seat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... when Robin visited his fraternity and failed to identify him as a robot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... just wanted to let you know that you can have a lot of fun and still get

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... later today. 11:05-11:55 -- 21A.100 (intro to anthropology) lecture ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... was difficult to see her struggle and cry and be sad. As much as I want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019