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  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven ... body will get old eventually. Our sister’s in Chicago working as a ... so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  obvious now, but it will be someday. 50 Things supposedly still gets the ... have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT ... , but not all. I loved being able to look up from my desk and get student

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... are brutal). I dressed nicely and headed to lab to get some work done

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... claims. 4) you get a final decision of accept or reject

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... STEM stuff (cause you can get some pretty cool results while having fun ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... did I get here. I bought two suits on sale yesterday, and I turn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  there. I’ll wait. [waiting] [some more waiting] Back? Good. We’ll get ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a ... idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... time. When I was younger I always believed I could get into MIT, but it has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , Fencing, Gilbert & Sullivan, Hillel, (okay, this is getting ridiculous. You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... "]pnr[/annotation] beneath us. i could no longer get away with viewing my academics as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... continue that line across the street, you get to Building 46. Branching off from Building 16, you get Buildings 56 and 66 in a single west–east line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had ... ? Do you have the patience for receiving e-mails like "HOW DO I GET INTO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... ’s “Savitri“) 8:00–Shower/Get Ready 8:20–Breakfast: Chocolate Branflakes

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  computer was my dad’s old Dell, which ran Windows XP. The system gets slower ... force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... Book Pro, the power cord can get trapped between the screen and the keyboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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