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  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting ... overview of the plan will suffice: our journey would start in Mattapan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... space. I thought out loud about how these places are completely out of our ... Last weekend,  I went camping with my living community [annotation

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... would highly recommend reading it! 9. How it feels to teach a class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... planning the longest in the process. But, over the next few weeks, I would

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... humiliating, and every time I was convinced that Mr. L would take my solo away ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... would never really want a permanent tattoo, but I love the temporary ones

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  felt in class. If I was bored, I would mess around with colors and ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• 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 ... .02 would give me some more time. The hours I’d spent catching up in 8 ... trajectory, I would actually learn more physics in 8.02. I think.  I wish I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... astrophysicist. Now something strange happened in that year, I would co ... out some time from my Jam-Packed schedule in third year (mostly I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at ... four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... school that makes somebody smile, makes them wonder how in the world this ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  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 ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our ... earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... documentation, at least not in the places I looked at. Only passing mentions in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• 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 ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014