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  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... better. This should be the breakthrough where I finally fall in love with ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• 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 ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then ... this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  squeezing my stomach in their fist? Why can't I get out of bed in the morning ... 't always be in control, but I can find what I can control and find solace in ... left me more keenly aware of situations where I may feel trapped and have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  options where you can excel. I found that I loved my school as much as I had ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• 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 ... ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . I can’t spend more than fifteen minutes without opening Discord or

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

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  where they are now. In fact, I think I’m extremely privileged. I have supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009