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

  

  . Freshman year, I could hang onto a talk for an average of probably 5 minutes ... year, it was probably 10-15 minutes, out of an hour. That summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  , by my standards, an excellent TA. Teaching 5.112 this semester has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of your excellence if there were less that 10 others that you competed ... have a ton of experiences. I'd say more than 5-6 letters is really

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... process starts anew, very tentatively. It's Tuesday, March 10th. Ongoing ... ='more accurately, an incomplete FAQ page leaks on the evening of July 5th; for a more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that happened last September. Firestorm’s tagline was “n classes in 5n ... . There are tables in Lobby 10, and it’s common for organizations to set up ... would be leading the class. We had to go from Building 5 all the way to

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  lightbulb, and leave. It is 5:00am. William L. ‘16 You arrive in lecture 10 ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  chance to see her again after the end of 5.12: Organic Chemistry. So, in ... Yes, we sent her this video, innocuously titled "5.12" at the time, but ... of 5.12 for Spring 2004, which hangs on my door to this day. Most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  sophomore year and gotten a 5 on the AP test with no real difficulty, aside ... just extremely hard. But then why the D? Why was I 10 points away from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a ... . Embrace that. 10) Get off campus, whether it's a walk into Boston or a

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  Aerospace because they'd done well in their 10th grade Jet Propulsion class ... . Journalism III was a very close second. 5. I was not an ambitious person. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of the 10 hours of lectures and recitations every week, I was present ... brilliant and I'm not dumb. And with 5 classes I didn't have much. Psets

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  we've created. We create apps in teams of 5, alongside a Dev Coach and ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of ... , not really the biomedical engineering part of it. > 10B Absolutely no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  . At 1:00 PM, mostly around 1:10, I resume work after lunch and keep a ... '"]work out at 5:30 PM.[/annotation] I dread it until the moment it arrives ... mins 2 hours. go to class again. eat lunch. work for 5 4 hours. go to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , for example, 10am biology lectures with Erik Lander, the Biology God ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... it. Also, do laundry more than 2.5 times a semester. It’s easy to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... rowdy drinking his cocoa, doesn't he? It's a tradition. Sung '10 has an adorable hat and is saying something, probably, "It's Lauren '10's birthday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  problematic fake science Myers-Briggs test (read more about that here). Big 5: The much-less-famous yet more credible Big 5 test. Enneagram: This thing ... hufflepuffs have a slight edge over ravenclaws! Not included are Big 5 and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  beautiful costume. The path went through the Infinite, into Lobby 10 where ... points per each small bird house made, 10 points per each pet security ... up around 5:30 AM, and was told that we had solved the Cactus Canyon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... Boston, or have no choice but to eat my screen.   5. First time ... belonging and identity. 10. First time identifying as black. USA has a race

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  , emptying or drying up every 5-10 years. Currently, all but one of the spring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016