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• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  MIT’s early action round. And today, I’m [annotation note="it's due ... moment in many ways. For one, I’m once again sitting in front of my ... , I’m scrutinizing every other phrase in my SoP and wondering how my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  twenty bucks I’m not getting in.” “I’ll bet you twenty that you are.” “You know what? I’m so confident I’m gonna get rejected, I’ll bet you my ... in your wallet?” “I’m not telling you.” For some reason, I didn’t want

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it ... and ruin it once more."]ready.[/annotation] When I’m not sleep ... ago but I'm rewatching. This year I also watched Desperate Housewives

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... , I go to many classes and drop them quickly. If I buy junk food and I'm ... entire hour's worth of work, and was I really going to throw that away? I'm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  find myself once again back on the MIT grounds. I'm unsure of when the phrase "I'm going back to MIT" slipped into "I'm going back home", but as I ... inevitable passage of time. There will come the day when I'm no longer at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my ... continue doing so until I'm nothing but a head and some hands. I am tired, a broken phonograph that repeats the same hum of "Yeah, I'm just really tired

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I ... , it feels far away. It was just yesterday — where has that gone? I’m not ... handful of days, even though I know that I’m different as a result of them

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and ... campus from 10AM to 2AM most days. When I'm not on campus, I am asleep, likely still in my clothes from the day. I'm also around people more often

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... math and I’m tired   1:41 am: why don’t aquaporins have spec

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  right now?" I asked him. "Oh, I'm actually a '25," he said. "Oh." So ... cheering. I'm serious, people were cheering after every single sentence ... and I'm pretty sure my vision is getting worse, so I was squinting at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  worth noting that I rarely back up my computer. I'm just not that ... bottom makes it seem like I'm marking questions from a physics problem set. The next set is absolutely crochet hook sizes, but I'm not sure why they

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I enjoy what I’m learning in my classes, the relentless stream of ... other people cruising through harder classes just fine while I’m ... ’t even do a single pset problem on my own because i’m stupid and i drag my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  ="aligncenter" width="4096"] art from alina s. '24 that summarizes what i'm talking about ... love this school and I want you to come here' when the institution I'm ... know it's unfair to judge MIT off this one semester, which is why I'm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... heart-warming, and I'm happy that students were able to receive them. So far, each class meeting has been fascinating and engaging; I'm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  take around 48 units each semester, or 4 full classes. I'm currently ... , so here we are. Well, what are the classes? I'm interested in computer ... is that I haven't really found a solid pset group for this class, but I'm

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  i'm taking this semester because i need hass-a credit and i was also ... 'll probably bump into more people i know. i'm not sure how i'll handle that. in ... in nine separate occasions. by the end of the class, i'm expecting to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted ... , but many parts were actually quite difficult and painful. I'm not sure ... pressure was at play. I'm much more certain now about what my values are and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... one of my two 20-hour UROPs didn't receive direct funding. I'm glad that ... video that illustrates our different floor cultures, and I'm one of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive ... living with my friends than living at home. I'm not lonely at all, for one ... skewed since I'm only a rising sophomore and haven't engaged in all of this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020