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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... . Cat 1 will tackle and bite Dog 4 if no one is looking. A knock at the ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  one is like many of the other life-changing decisions that await you ... need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... year of section-hopping, and is one of my most important and exhausting

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

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir ... had one. There are four TED talks I watched last night at 2:something ... stepping stone for another one disrupt your dreams and the progress you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to achieve those priorities vary just as much. At one institution, the sole ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  was this one kid that was really memorable, because she saw a need in ... something that one is not, is destined for failure. Why then, would the ... involves multiple relationships, rather than a single one. And although, an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... worth being proud of, but that's where step one comes in. Before moving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  some chain-like gold necklaces. (Seriously, the first and last one are ... experimented with three different bras throughout the day to find one that made ... European people how Americans dance to "Hey Ya!" I've said it before, but one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come through the department in the past decade. That doesn't mean he was one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an ... with you because this case was one concrete example of just how little we ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning ... you won’t hear about if you don’t leave MIT and return, one language ... nametag I’ve forgotten to remove. “Returning Student… Panelist?” one will

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... spend nights at the historic Palomar Observatory, the setting of one of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a ... because one door did not open. It's SO easy to compare yourself to someone

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  are two more to take its place. Each one has more problems than the last ... with taxonomy. They draw out a tree. Kingdom Animalia only has one line coming out of it: Pisces. One of the branches coming off that is Felidae

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  said, while I wondered who I had become if I wasn’t that old me, the one ... might have taken hold because of one of these things, or all of them, or none of them. It’s a disease, and it’s not one that discriminates. Here

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to catch one's breath. One's chest might hurt from not breathing correctly - and one can become nauseous or otherwise ill. There are many ways ... feelings all the time. Here are a few! 1. Breathing This is the number one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... from previous years, from one particularly talented pumpkin-carver (who ... what all these pumpkins are (except for the one with the French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... suggestion of setting or theme, but the one rule is to create something with a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did ... ever diminishing - not even one bit. This place is still just like the ... it's really different for every person, and there is truly no one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... next weekend is going to be SUPER exciting! One of my best friends is ... Every semester, one of the male living groups on campus, Chocolate City ... MIT and the Boston-area to perform. This event, iLL Vibes, is one of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... she can have an awkward conversation with the Hamptons' number one ... how bad could that be?" I think one time she might have made a vegan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007