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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  a forums post cannot communicate the complexity of an applicant's life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . This is grief. Through my life, I have been spared from the worst of ... known. To fully know oneself includes knowing one's life from the shoes of

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  test in first-year algebra but would never use in real life. 8.022 is ... hate when things feel arbitrary. All my life, I’ve been told to memorize ... great, because they were APs, because they took over my life and I couldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... on for dear life and hold our breath. We look out for each other, and ... taking the test changes you profoundly and the test is actually life. —me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .B. ‘21 I got my decision on Pi Day -- I did not have my life anywhere

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’m into theoretical computer science, and applying algorithms to real-life ... Line. Alan: I never want to see another Green Line train in my life. CJ ... rest of his life. I mean, sure. Alan: Our next destination was the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  others, food, water, life, experiences, feelings, new ideas, something to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I’m 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and the upcoming new year,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  velociraptor from its fossil, you can't understand the life of an applicant from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight savings time. Okay, so it’s been like a month. I don’t know what happened, dawg. I don’t even have…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  life cannot all be consumed. I want to feel this 1-2 times a year, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ="Surprising primarily because it's so rare for the faculty to weigh in on student life ... -years and FSILGs, residential life is such an important part of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in fact, been many posts about Splash before. Even Petey himself, the man, the legend, has taught for…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT.…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it’s my last semester, I’ve been trying to spend more time working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since I could be…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. —…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was left with some extra…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020