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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... . Proofread. I'm sure you've heard it all before, but your word processor

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  love Boston weather. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say ... the next it's storming and the next it's hailing and I'm never bored. 2 ... . 6. By the way, I'm sitting in a park by the Charles River not anywhere

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to this class since it's a class I'm obligated to take rather than one I ... . This class is notoriously difficult and I'm pretty stressed about doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  more people could have this experience.” And then I was like: “Gasp! I’m blogging again! More people can have this experience!” So I’m here, freshly caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  remaining and I would think, "Oh I have money left, I'm going to find ... really I'm not spending that much, but please add more money (again)." I ... spent in the previous month. And despite doing this for 8 months now, I'm

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

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  and write more stories. I’m a timeworn college senior, and I will ace my ... :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... and Andrew are working on a gigantic rocket. I’m playing Saints Row IV

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won ... opportunities for doing research. I'm actually not 100% sure why I went to MIT ... list of all the extracurricular activities that I'm involved with. Do I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  . Although the “I’m Just Ken” memes and bright pink were shoved down everyone ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I’m ... , despite all its glory, is also just another place I live now. I’m still

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  green, so green it shocked me.  I’m happier than I was, I reasoned ... classes. I’m learning about Celtic folklore and picking up a lot of writing ... of my life. I’m not trying as hard on psets this semester, but I seem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  some higher-dimensional-being that I'm merely a slice of. A fragment of ... numerous other areas of study, I'm interested in the worm's relationship with ... think about this quite a lot (though I'm certain you can find a part of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  far I've strayed from that this summer. Work has been hard for me. I'm ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... -MIT workplace sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm far too opinionated for my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  really long blog posts. i did a lot of other things too, sure. i'm two ... vincent h. '23. it went something like this. vincent: yeah i'm worried i'm ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February ... of Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and Heathers so I'm going to count that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... . Because I’ll be asleep. Because I’m living somewhere between Boston time and ... . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I’m drowning in it. I’m not in meltdown mode yet. I still feel "fine ... 's only 3 weeks into the semester, and I’m already finding it easy to lose track of all of the things that I’m doing. Thursday passes, and because

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... , which I’m very grateful for. One of them actually goes to MIT, and we did ... bread or pancakes, so I’ll have that. But I’m honestly extremely content

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  so many more places to apply to. And I'm just very exhausted and ... , especially taking 6.145. I found that I'm probably the least qualified to be a ... myself that I'm a computer science major and that you just have to like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  the CMS research groups and the Media Lab, my heart feels full and I'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... thing I'm good at. Instead, I can put my skill points into anything and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  with them. I start by writing down exactly what it is that I'm afraid of ... am worried will transpire. Not "I'm scared of my quantum exam tomorrow!" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013