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• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  assumptions about how social connections work are wrong. I never assumed I would ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... make any progress. In those moments, I would forget that sometimes the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  things I was interested in. Well, that would have been a bit of a stretch ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... whatnot. Nonetheless, what are the odds? Case in point number 2: I was ... me yet. If I kept going, I would beat him to class but he would see me

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  it all in as high school Cami would have done, I talked to people about ... that they've let me do. Simultaneously, my heart sank, as I realized how ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I could improve", that would probably not bode well for my future. I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... to be hardcore and sleep outside in the snow. Sam and I were among ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  Farai asked "I was wondering how you get by day by day with the ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... and the walk-ins area. (Normally there are people around, but I took ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  international student!!" I would recommend having your essay mailed in along with ... tapes should showcase your talents. I would send in anything in which you ... probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  in addition to filling out the rest of the application. I would try to ... 't come out till mid-November. In the application, would I write in my old ... , "Aww, I live in Las Vegas. Too bad you didn't visit here. Would you know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  , “typical” doesn’t describe anyone here, and in GEL I’m going to learn how to ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class, something that would've slaughtered me in high school; although I ... the exam would even cover, and yet I walked in there and took it as if I ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I ... time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006