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

  

  [annotation note="and arguably, even before that. college apps feel so far away ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the ... wish I could switch the two. The person who applied to colleges her

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to ... perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... newly-made College of Computing, and much, much more. As student ... without previous college credits, and thus inequitable. When ESS was in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone belongs to one of thirty-one colleges. I belong to a small one, Magdalene

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's only physics professor for its first few years. Integral Calculus ... Barton Rodgers wasn't just a physics professor. He was the physics ... engineering. (And physics, but I think "physics" here is just engineering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were ... say the least. The reality is that the college application process is ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  who say that their high school life was more difficult than college ... of time and energy since I kept convincing myself I was bad at physics ... don’t understand they’re talking to underpaid college students and not

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion, rather than clarifies it. d) College becomes just a motion, something you ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and ... educational approach, the standard practical joking which permeated most college ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... a gap year before they start college, so most know exactly what they

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is ... it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  friends was like: "Let's go explore Boston University." So we did. Probably ... classes on Wednesday the 11th: Monday: 8.01 (Physics I) Tuesday: 5 ... imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  University's Departments of Physics and Cell Biology. Fall 2001 to Spring ... his wife, who also lived in floorpi). He majored in physics and math ... also lived in floorpi). He majored in physics, did a PhD, then a postdoc

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school. It's like getting an education from the University of Pennsylvania

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 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?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... of college and I just bought two cheeseburgers from a local gas station

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  another, except for maybe Course 8. Fuck physics. Recently, I've been ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I ... let that go when I went to college, so I knew that I needed to minor in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to create things, a conduit between the spiritual and the physical. In MIT ... are alternate universes where similar but different versions of herself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023