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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  , nothing before this had ever suggested that I couldn’t get the results I ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , and after a few days, I get an interview. A day or two after that, I get ... include packing all of my stuff and getting home safely, but it does sit ... activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • 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

  

  . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... time to get through Question 1 Part A of an assignment, lost to the point

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B ... Thoughts I'll add more of my thoughts as I get further into the medical ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lift my instrument up. Blow. Nothing would come out. Panic. Shake. Get a ... and in cathedrals in Prague. I'd get that little smile and nod from Mr ... cappella group, or an improv comedy troupe. Pick up a new instrument. Get a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  'm sure I'll get multiple notes from people that actually do) than we were ... . Whatever. Okay - this is the part where we get into the cheesy, reflective ... you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... students getting into big schools because I have to realize discussion about ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you ... , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , and then fell behind again after getting sick from the flu shot ... I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  . I had close friends who didn't get in - people I knew were just as ... . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... prevent getting zeros on all my homework assignments? I do my homework

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . When your friends' parents visit, include them. You'll get free food, etc ... 't get the most out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which ... a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018