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  what am i doing great question.

  

  praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately ... in August. But #5 has been giving me nightmares--or it would, if I ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... the question: If I didn’t know myself, what would I think of the person ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international student orientation, I (along with all the other internationals) ate in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... something very similar already once in my life, around the first time I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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 ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  more likely to just say "no" than "sorry, I would, but... ." In my ... would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to 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 / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  got in touch with him: “Dear Anna, I would be delighted to talk ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023