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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... -inspirational quotes on Tumblr) will tell you, “you don’t find yourself, you create

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  application will go live on 07/01/2023, and close on 8/01/2023. Anyone who has started their application by 08/01/2023 will have a grace period of 7 days ... ’t write about what it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... . Or perhaps it's passed and now you're having a rough time dealing with a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... 1 am to 5 am every night to work on it. I couldn’t find any other time ... recognized. When I was outside, I wished I could magically disappear or hide

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  your say, your body will silence 1 alarm, or 5 alarms. 10 if you really ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... you up to 1 email a day until you find “unsubscribe.” You will want a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... 's certain parts of campus or food or whatever! Otherwise I'll just do my best ... watch): Calendar Flip || VEDA #1 – introductions, juice boxes, the dome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  of learning yet another sorting algorithm or data structure, because ... group of friends, wondering whether this idea was genius or insanity ... , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , wondering if this or that even makes sense, and who in their right minds would ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... New Yorkers are…well, probably deserving of an occasional punch or two

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  the Class of 2029 will come to MIT (or go to any number of other ... case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  the time ticks away and you lie in your bed, your TA or Professor will ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... 2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  strawberry), a frat wearing tank tops, Burton 1 (a floor on Burton Connor ... tickets were either white, red, or blue, and before they said the number on ... that early hour). The class was actually really cool, but I will leave

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... 40 minutes just in case it starts to burn down. [carousel image1 ... finishing. [carousel image1="85342" image2="85343" image3="85344" /] “The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  announced that all GRTs will be replaced with ravenous bears. You write an ... ’re stuck here. Your friends can’t tell if you’re laughing or crying. You ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  know what Lobby 7 or what the brass rat is, and older alums will even ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  confident that our biggest triumphs or losses will not be an admissions ... pretty deep disappointment when I found out. But I will give a data point ... ). Most finals dragons, especially freshman or sophomore year, look more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  full answer. Most of these days when people ask me how an exam or a pset ... ’t doing all that much. I was tired, all the time, but wasn’t sure why or how ... morning No clubs or activities outside of Interphase. Here’s the list

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... students who came to the Institute despite historical and geographical ... information presented below came from either federal sources or materials from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017