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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... getting used to this, still clamored for the safe familiarity of home—of my ... long period spent indoors, dreams sometimes get big enough to climb out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to ... that it’s possible to get more enjoyment and better results when you

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excited about getting to solve these puzzles. Furthermore, Next Haunt was ... learned that the cast members were told not to eliminate anyone but just get ... and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  motivation that propelled me to succeed academically was to get out of Alabama ... , even as strangers. We finally get to have an interaction that is free ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , but honored. We all just had such a great time getting to work together ... amazing "working" with my teammates and so wonderful to get to work on ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... doesn't have maintenance staff. You get to feel a part of a different ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... struggle to get better, the struggle to know myself, the struggle to chart ... late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... class readings, I managed to get through Michelle Obama’s Becoming

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010