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• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I ... quiz is separated into two parts -- a written section and an online

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  , there is a well-documented psychological phenomenon called impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome, says Wikipedia, is "a psychological phenomenon ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  (driving in Boston is a piece of cake compared to driving in India) were SO ... learned to fly in: a G1000-equipped Diamondstar DA40. This one is kind of ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  's really cool. I think you're unique in your thinking and this is a great ... : [Xiao Chiao (a famous beauty in ancient China)] Host: "Do you think he ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  throwing my insecurities into the depths of the Internet is a step in the ... integral of your speed-time graph will do just that. An integral is just a ... zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... -day weekend. They emailed faculty directly when necessary, took in a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  attended. In a room in the student center, the organization had put about thirty chairs in a circle so that anyone could stop by and ask the author a ... session later that night with Cliff Knechtle, a Christian author. The writer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  actually is, and we managed to make a functional one in two days! Cheers to ... ’s a cannoli?” in a fast-paced conversation is a lot harder than it seems ... It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  with a series of shorter sprints in between. MIT is one of those four ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  the year: pika is no different. In the fall we have a major Work Week ... remarks that, Epsilon Theta is a small and close-knit co-ed fraternity. We live in our beautiful house across from a pleasant public park in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  result will be an author in numerous papers! A long with UROPing all the ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... activities that it became legitimately stressful. This year, as a sophomore in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a ... ’s mostly not advice. if you find yourself in a similar situation as I was, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... actually is–somewhere I love, but not in the ways I expected.  

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

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  so much information in such a small period of time that it is like ... surround yourself in the craziness that is MIT.  You are only a prefrosh once ... CPW, no worries! Orientation week is just as great, just a week long

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  is an absolute nightmare.  I’m friends with four cats in a trenchcoat ... i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023