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• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  reassurances my friends give me, I can't help but feel as if it's all one big ... , and if we don't, she'll feel bad. And while I know my friends aren't doing this at all, it doesn't stop the doubts and wondering and fears from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of ... aren’t always right, especially in nerd school. Everyone here has ... semester. Don’t panic, don’t procrastinate—I believe in you. The cut

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  direct communication helps those of you who weren’t able to visit during CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... Campus if you didn't come here with three patents and a business in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  some variations: you don’t cry, but instead, silently cheer because you ... have to immerse yourself into this persona if this isn’t you, so I ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Right? On one hand, there’s nothing ... hand? I didn’t quite know yet. Mine was predominantly a fear of action ... was met with distaste, discomfort, grumbling about why things couldn’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... application profile, the little things you can do that can't hurt your chances ... probably won't point out their/they're/there, who's/whose, aloud

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at ... you can see the colors of their towels, and you still can't see the ... didn't even know how to cross streets in the city, let alone how to tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  Competition (FRC). While there aren’t strict age limits, in my experience (in ... computer lab with a mission she refused to back down from. “It isn’t fair that fifth graders don’t get to do robotics,” I argued. “What makes the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp."]t ... join a sorority/fraternity)"]something else,[/annotation] work week at tΞp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a ... actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I just putting myself through an unnecessary struggle?" Why I didn't ... background in anything AI-related, still eludes me. On the other hand, I don't ... after undergrad? I don't know. Industry? Academia? I don't even know if I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  . it turns out it wasn't covid, as multiple negative pcrs and rapids ... said. "i think it should be on your chart? maybe you just can't see it ... hitting me pretty hard. getting sick definitely didn't help. my sore throat

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... magically just got made without me doing it. I wished that I didn't have to ... criticism is negative, when the thing I made wasn't well-received. This year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in class all day. Isn’t innocence so [annotation note= " *cries in psets and office hours * seriously though, i wish i hadn't made that trade

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  living my life at such a break-neck speed that I haven’t really processed ... . Quadrant two is “Wow so much fun but help I can’t breathe out of my nose ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , and I hope you don't turn down the Skype interview if you happen to be ... anyone and I don't know what you got on your SATs. After I write my ... interview - I won't ask you to solve any problems, and I won't ask you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already ... calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second scowled at him. “Our calculations aren’t wrong,” he said. “The transit of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table ... producers got the numbering system right, the numbers of the rooms aren't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  even though I don't actually go there yet. If you think that makes me ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... honest, I won't be offended by anti-Jersey jokes at all. I understand and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here ... school who was killed. You couldn't have said it better - people do need to ... they didn't receive the big envelope. For me, seeing the admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004