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  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... worked out that I'd get home with plenty of time to spare. As I started ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  page, and it led us running to the Infinite Corridor where we found a map ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... to see what I had forgotten, what shoelace was missing, what sock was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... year, but I am still learning how to get better at it—figuring out what ... get my work done, and it took me a while to understand that my ability

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... I was gonna get into MIT, but despite that uncertainty I was going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... there: sometimes I get too tired to fold my laundry and just fall asleep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... and read some of my old MITblog entries from time to time when I get ... reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... , 3E went to get waffles and then went back to next. Yesterday, we went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... getting to watch current undergrads learn to appreciate the same things I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.]

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• 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 ... school. Get a huge notebook with calendar dates and extra space to write ... the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... read about you, care about you, and get to know you - almost as if I ... getting to read every story, learn about every person, and feel as though I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• 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 ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... level to get very high. If you like free food, you’ll love it here. If ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  . Then, I go home, sit at my desk, and handwrite four to six pages. Every ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... , who loved and supported me and told me that if I wanted to get out, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• 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?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... , whatever. I’m gonna get back to work.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018