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  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to prove that I could, even if it meant sacrificing my physical and mental

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• 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…

  

  themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then more people came into the little station and it became fuller and then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I know, as well as a poignant and accomplished blogger. Enjoy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it from. Here are some sunsets from our living room.     And here are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• 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"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit and finish something. And this is that something. Hopefully there will

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped (alarming the desk worker) and dropped the envelope. I knew this book. I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... rejection letters so that I would be able to recognize mine immediately and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  . Repeat. Next day. Repeat. My friends and I have been talking about lately how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014