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

  

  as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  blob of squishy white stuff in my hair. It was roach guts. I got roach ... food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... of the table, and chucked it in the trash. I wiped the table down as a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... some of my own adventures -- I spent nights in Hawaii at such high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... . A ten-day game in IAP sounds like a lot, but I enjoyed every hour of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel ... .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  either of those classes either. But there is nothing really I can do right ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... loans worked. But now that I'm deep in the throes of apartment hunting ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• 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…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... heroes of any story I'm in"]My mom helped,[/annotation]the blankets helped ... way I did, but it adds another level of perspective. I can no longer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  basics before adding layers of complexity. I had no experience in robotics ... Physics I (1) In all of the physics classes I've taken so far (which is ... of my friends was taking it and loved it. I joined in on the second

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  [annotation note="In my friend's memory of this day, Nisha and I were already sitting ... find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... lots more groups of people. I can see other people's connections to each

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... back-end of major Microsoft stuff. I didn't have an interest in hardware

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... joined Dance Troupe, because I liked dancing but the idea of dancing in ... with you. Oh, and that solo in sixth grade? The night of the concert, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  in the kiln So I actually started this back in fall/winter of 2023, but ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection? The things I can ... of success, in things not working out. Rather, I’d say, there is great

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life ... decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me ... did in the first week of my freshman fall. I’ve dropped all but one of ... that I can barely glimpse the rest of the world behind it. But on the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... has taken up more of my life than I ever planned, and in a few days, it ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017