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

  

  Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... . It didn’t get destroyed. It just left. You are so far down the tunnel ... library. Halfway down the aisle you get turned around and can’t find the way

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  T. '02. At this point, the graph of connections was already getting ... , because getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose ... hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to ... seemed like a real option before because I didn’t think I’d get accepted

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... associate crying with his parents getting angry at him. When he got angry, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  in her life (getting a job, graduate school, and marriage) occurred in ... lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel ... getting it ready. no, it’s not all work, if anything i’ve been doing can ... ’m doing lots. and i’m getting things done, and on time, and therefore there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  have started out as friends or acquaintances (I know, this gets confusing ... you just want to talk to someone, or get advice about healthy ... that you won't be surprised or shocked when you get here--you're on your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hear is slightly different. They don’t have to worry about getting sick ... returners, “You may get addicted to going on leave.” He explains: the world ... for leaving, and we get asked all the usual questions. Here are some of

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

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers ... and grind and get that coin or something 💸💸💸

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... failures every day and that's ok. It takes a lot of trying to get through

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to ... you get involved? CUP is just one way that MIT students can be involved ... . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “what could be” always gets me. Imagining pasts that never were, futures ... ’ll get off waitlists, hope that I'll receive funding from fellowships. And

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... culture shock, and my first reaction was fit in or get kicked out. It was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... could handle a light load, so I could at least get a couple of my GIRs out ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... design-oriented than practical/get-your-hands-dirty sometimes) because that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... and helped me get my life back on track. Special recognition for my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with ... you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022