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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... retrospect, I can understand why she'd reacted like this. How could I have felt ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• 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

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... -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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  stress and fear about if I’m going to graduate and how I (can’t) afford ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  . Today I feel how you feel. I don't know if I can still pass the class with ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021