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

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I ... 'd take a lot of time on each post. I'm not sure when the downward spiral ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I’m ... a friend probably can’t single-handedly set you up with a job, chances ... you’re feeling a little bold and don’t want to deal with the possibility

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I ... 's the reason I'm talking to you today!" It just didn't seem right. I mean

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to ... wedding receptions, there wasn't much of a discussion about where we would ... said above, I'm a second-year PhD student at Harvard. I picked a thesis

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... granted and always aim for the A. If you can't figure out what you are doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston. That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... post-MIT) experience. Identifying as a hipster-sans-the-fashion, I'm

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitch using a kit from Barnes and Noble. Nine years later and I’m still ... ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I ... after the epidural kicked in, I’m not a monster). On a side note, the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... ."]I haven't played a video game since last year D:[/annotation] Hellllloooo Everybody, its me [USERNAME] I'm just introducin' myself here! I am a thirteen

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... living thing and its fossil. A fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and ... I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... be quite a day, and I’m looking forward to it. There’s something

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... was AP Computer Science. Two and a half years later, I'm still a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... if you didn't notice that the embedded YouTube player was a playlist rather than a single video. To hopefully avoid this confusion, I'm going to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... don't go there. To summarize: be yourself, and let your essay be a ... applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  - encrypting and decrypting them by hand. The work isn’t a chore; it’s a ... time on it? But there isn't a day that goes by or a pset that I tool in ... .01 (Microeconomics) a few days ago, so I'm down to "only" five classes, and feel a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011