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

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often ... just being 4 years of puzzle hunts and robotics competitions for the hell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  of the admissions staff that can be credited with the successful ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... on doing the issue, as it's past midnight and the issue is supposed to ... to be doing the World and Nation section. 2:29am: Apparently in honor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little–-and ... brilliantly talented, the very asset that got you in will be the biggest and ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  person I want to be and the people I've been over the past two years; I ... self-actualization—not just on the blogs, but also in person and in my ... and ends. One evening that week I slumped upside down on the couch in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  my room, lock the door, and play NES on my laptop. But last week I was ... passed out on the floor [and you're sprawled out amidst three notebooks and ... sleep. On the floor. Because I had to go to German in 40 minutes, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  your advisor and sign off on the classes you'll be taking for the ... bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their ... that make up the daily grind of the class, the insights will be lost on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics ... purpose and need. While the liberal arts environment on IHP involves some ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern ... Committee on Educational Survey, on page 137: The plan suggests that the East ... that the 1970s would finally be when East Campus and Senior House would

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was ... that I can barely glimpse the rest of the world behind it. But on the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . And on April 1st (why did I decide that date), I sent the following ... our games (and so random people on the internet couldn’t just win money).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’t, you smear the colonies on the cloth and the petri dishes into their ... the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few ... me and my preciouses on the range:   And my beautiful certificate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  is the spiritual successor to on success, meaning, and time. Obviously ... years to try and grow as a person: the company's culture is focused on ... after a few years — and if so, what could I possibly move on to? To be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  , and that was delicious. It was refreshing to just be normal. On the ... you and around others. Fighting for the right to be yourself can help ... . I would simply be better than the people around me, and it would prove

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... you can too. Many more will be able to in just a short while. And before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  and bounds past what I’d planned. The words I wrote on the road would be ... looked different on this side of the world, and promised that I would be ... shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  " their victim by finding them spoonless off the floor and tagging them. Upon killing, one absorbs their victim's victim, and so on until one ... middle school, and the combination of such an inspiring professor with the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do ... on the then and now. sophomore fall: you aren't really ever done ... time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester ... will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the ... . Accordingly the car was rolled in the court between the dorms and set on fire ... sacrificing your ride home, and especially if they don't fix the fan belt on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016