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• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... classroom … etc. and 2) Open up! …I can think of a handful of situations where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... answers.[/annotation] I can ask the questions that I wouldn’t have asked in ... Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not ... it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this ... like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig ... chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hit - how are you doing? Where are you staying? What can we do to help ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... to compete. I [annotation note="we live in a society, man"]can't fix

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... . Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  grows as I bounce off ideas and memories. In this initial phase, I can ... somewhat crowding the stage. In highschool actually, the professors I liked ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned ... justice to how...I don't even have the words. Seriously? That kid was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... or for worse, the same person I was in high school. But also, how could ... forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  can do, for how we as people live in the world. Course 11 is the perfect ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... ... exist in spaces surrounded by people. I wrote something similar back in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , but how can i be content when i know that i didn’t achieve p e a k ... -coded chunks than i can name, i feel as if i’ve gained very little. the ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019