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

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... being collected. You keep getting cryptic emails from a mailing list

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 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…

  

  gets distracted by airplanes flying overhead, and gave Professor Darmofal ... looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... getting bored, and can't see myself working with one project (or even one

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... blurred away as I get older and time goes on. What did she think about on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... merely passing was a stretch, and getting an A an impossible leap. There would be other people, other girls just my age, who would definitely get A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... ’t remember the exact moment when I started caring deeply about getting into a ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... than I give to, like how I go to SaveTFP and get free food, or how I ... , or how I'll go to International Students Association meetings to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... friends in DPhiE, I started getting daily lunch and dinners with people, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... that they don't get sad, or that they don't grieve. It's just that most ... . The biggest step I took towards getting better was leaving home. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... -term plans was getting into MIT.) Beginning with my career shift in freshman ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... in 5 minutes.   Each team of 20 students gets a budget of ... explanations as they get more practice. One reviewer’s comment that &ldquo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... . Embrace that. 10) Get off campus, whether it's a walk into Boston or a ... exactly the way you imagined, but getting that seemingly-perfect idea out of

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

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... - so I'm going to leave her with you. Anna, get Josh's opinion, then you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• 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.

  

  started getting sick. I lost weight. Which, for me, a 105 pound girl, was a pretty big deal. One day, while we were getting chinese food at Kendall ... before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... , only getting bits at a time. Then I had a thought. Sometimes when I eat

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... [annotation note="We get extra late hours whenever the course staff take too

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... , so realistically the chances Camille would get accepted were pretty low

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity ... purchased for $.99. SNAP recipients get half off $10 or less of produce a day ... can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016