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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... . I wouldn’t know how to respond when they asked me why, so I’d say ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... . Anyway, I noticed this a few months ago, made a Twitter thread about some correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... other and the interviewers. I thought it would be terrifying; the bios of ... mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• 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?!

  

  Grand Poobah and which preceded Stephen Colbert’s super PAC army). I met ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school ... These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for ... yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , how old am I? I mean, holy cow, the blogs are 10! And Petey is older ... rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my scream would sound like; I couldn’t remember ever hearing it before ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... that there was just one tiny (read: stupid) error somewhere, but I couldn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Poetry 2015 What I taught: how to argue kindly, how to detect and avoid ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration ... too! 45. Eat at Mike's Pastries - I don't know how many times I ... over again at MIT that I've kind of lost track of how many movies I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  apply to things, no matter how selective, no matter what I tell myself ... ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  how much longer until he/she graduates, but you didn't ask, so I'll tell ... entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008