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

  

  . But it can also make you feel tiny—insignificant.  I’m not sure how to ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I

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

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... ="yes i know i'm not supposed to touch my face"]entirety of my face ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  shop at Newbury; we could go to Prudential and complain about how ... to Prudential and complain about how expensive everything is. We could ... a road trip, and I'll try my best not to get motion sick. We can sit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... people and not knowing anyone else. This is isolation, which I like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , tossing box-sized dice and trying not to eat their resources: graham ... weightroom weight as a counterweight): it is dropped, not pushed; thanks to ... while to realize (in part because I’m not sure I knew what college was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... truthers. They go to the grocery store every day; I'm not sure why. I haven ... Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not ... what sort of water data to look for, how to design our solution, and what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... ;In fact, I'm aiming to not have our presenters use clickers to advance

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You ... . You have fifteen unread messages. You read them, not because you need to ... constitutional crisis. JudBoard is asked to rule. JudBoard is not yet whole, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  upperclassmen talk about how not to explode at MIT and Random. It's going to be ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  returners are stable and supported even if they’re not yet 100% readjusted to ... semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... about it because maybe people will realize it’s not something to be

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ten do not recommend. Alan: I, fortunately, did not have to move at all ... ="59012" /] Alan: Eventually, a train going to Braintree which is not accepting ... MBTA station, not to mention Braintree. [caption id="attachment_59014

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice ... go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure ... . And now that my brain has oxygen flowing to it again I think I can keep

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish ... Thursday I leave class thinking, "So that's how carbon sequestration works

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection ... , largely because I wasn’t quite sure how to reconcile my “African-ness” with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... Ashante or her inability to maintain pitch control, not lip-sync at live

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work ... other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019