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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  to even how my island is going to look like in Animal Crossing. I try ... feel, what I gain from my self-reflection, and how I can work to ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in middle school, and every year in elementary school. You'd think I'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... any effort whatsoever (yes, i did go fratting in pajamas more than once ... frat gave us fried Oreos, which slapped. oh frats, how i miss you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... . How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I ... how accomplished it made me feel. Sophomore year, I came back ready and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... , often alludes me. All I know is that I like or don't like how I feel about this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022