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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  MIT doesn't make me feel the academic imposter syndrome everyone ... [annotation note="While I do think MIT has its unique pressures, I don't think ... [/annotation] create an inescapable mindset that if I don't take all of them, I am not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  thrifting. i don’t really know what that means. maybe it just means you look good in red. yeah, maybe. some change would be nice, though. i don't know ... your classes this semester, don't you? yeah, they're fun. you know when

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  hard it is to write good blog posts. Thankfully, you don't actually have ... philosophy. Doesn't matter if it's unrelated; no one's gonna read the lyrics ... 're worried about coherence, remember that many respected plays don't make any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  wouldn’t really count this as a conversation, but it certainly is small ... small talk mode. We don’t have to have a deep conversation about math, but ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You ... life!! No -- stop, this doesn't mean you get to quit school since you ... -- you'll thank me in 2016 :) So what was I going to say? Oh, you don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . They told you that you could do anything. They forgot to add that you can't ... that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... my hometown of Los Angeles. It wasn't bad. Taking four classes was just

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... have it explained in 5 minutes. But the supervisor doesn't usually stop ... simple motto, there is no theorem, lemma or concept that isn't better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  people, and other people may confide in you. But don't confide in other ... regular somewhere. It doesn't matter if it's a deli, or a barber, or a bike ... are all the same. They aren't done for their own sake. They are done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  out. (note: turns out that's impossible, you can't fit 100 dimples with ... has abruptly shifted into high gear. Don't let that freak you out though ... flash and java. Back in the day we didn't have all the bells and whistles

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  's not because I don't have the free time to drink my milk. It's because I ... crazy, aren't they? You convert entire moments of your life that have made ... somewhere you don't even know with all the hope in the world that somebody

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  briefly contemplated buying a Hard Rock Café: Munich t-shirt, because that ... 24 euros and decided that, with current exchange rates, I didn't like anybody that much. Blah blah blah... pictures. I don't know if it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... dressed (in my world, putting on track pants and a t-shirt != getting ... you really don't hate it. What you hate about it is the enormous

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  'll be sortof long, sorry. First, the MIT adcom perspective. I don't know the exact numbers; I couldn't tell you even if I thought it would be ... ?" Sometimes they didn't know the difference, which is a tragedy that deserves

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  . Don't be shy; the ECs are used to people wanting to schedule interviews ... your purpose so that he/she knows your mail isn't spam. I remember ... that someone won't open the lid and dump in something unrelated to the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  exhausted. tick Have I done anything worthwhile here? It feels like I haven't ... minimum. I'm average at best. Why can’t I excel anymore? I’m just barely ... this club? Why am I doing… any of this??? tick I can’t get peace here. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  it, that MIT isn't that academically intense; that it's only as hard as you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... skills on the way, that would be lovely, but it wouldn’t be enough. Of course it wouldn’t be. Welding metal will not ever actually compare to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  reputation isn’t the best reason to select a college. Thus, since I ... ; Tricks Do ask good questions (that aren't on the website) Campus visits ... and don’t get nervous about what you’re asking! That being said - it

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  it isn’t awkward. Those people you can genuinely say are friends ... really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I didn’t have friends ( I did, I was insanely popular ;) ), but I just wasn’t

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015