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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"

  

  . 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

  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

  [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

  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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  all the classes I've discovered, despite MIT's [annotation note="this is ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... May 1, 2019, but registration won't open until August 26. This is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... and watched things. This is what I wrote: Journal, evening, Tuesday, January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp &

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... the IMO is selected. And yes, I made the top twenty. I was in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  bloggers, letting us know that the MIT Korean Student Association was filming an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... blogs instead  # I took this class called 8.022, which is electricity and ... is maybe intelligible, perhaps relevant, hopefully not too [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on ... caught the Hamilton references in the blog title, this is actually my most

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016