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

  

  adventure. Now, I am sitting in front of the wooden desk in the room that I ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... challenge I faced was applying in the midst of assignment deadlines and ... the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  invested in a range of questions, and I want to work on them all right now ... see them as frequently as I can. Whenever I am in their respective ... lot more deep than many of the ones I made in high school. The way I go

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  because i was still stuck in the mindset of always defaulting to the ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... to account for the width of the radiator in my planning, so I needed to ... of Othello, in which I was master carpenter," said Jakob. "I bought it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  steeps all of her books in), but there are some character attributes that I ... some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Have I Ever, in which I discovered I was missing out on a lot of life ... nachos and pancakes (one moment while I heavily sob in memory of all that ... pictures of tasty-looking non-traditional meals. I’ll either seek them out in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... he'd taken me on a tour of their office while I was in the Bay Area ... still critical, of Facebook. My friend who worked there and I got in a big

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the ... to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... the one I see now when I stand in front of a mirror. Of course, I ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  of specialized machines to choose from, and I like working out in an ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... to take part. In addition to the confinement of hours like Gloria noted

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  interested in the topic area of my work Feeling like I can do good through ... ’ll succeed in each of them? Probably. And I can’t know more than that in these ... colleges was the biggest decision of my life when I was in your shoes four

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  treated in a weird way by everyone. But I'm still proud of who I am.   ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... , adore eating and drinking in the Chinatown indoors. There is an array of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010