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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  been placed with a traditional advisor (only advising) instead. but mit’s ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... need coming into mit. being thrown into the deep end of mit’s potential

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  MIT in one of my philosophy classes. How does it go? “There is no ... : Measure whether MIT is worth it. Don’t walk out that door. You’ll know ... Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are ... preference): Stay in a dorm on MIT's campus. Last summer, MIT opened only ... dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  desk at MIT (more frequently called IS+T) supports a number of different ... little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 ... charming, despite his obsession with the color [annotation note="whitney is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• 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…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  . This is improvisation: there is no script, no written notes - just blank ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... my time on stage - at saying "yes, this is terrifying, and therefore I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  station is right across the Longfellow Bridge from MIT. It was…so nice to ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 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 ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... . The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... , but this isn't even a water bed. This is all water, no bed. No mattress ... challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ? Twelve. MIT’s response is laudable. Our house team did a really good job in ... now. Our housing situation here is at the point where it feels like MIT ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the

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

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied ... . enough rambling. =p 1. Froyo is meant for experimenting. So it is the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008