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• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... during committee, buy low-glycemic index snacks to avoid spikes and crashes ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office ... don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room ... character to your room. get SLAPped! ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on ... unfortunately not super common. most people want to get job experience over the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... , spread across the bed, and playing some Taylor Swift music, trying to get ... classes and labs and problem sets, getting to translate that to an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  that you won’t get a response to your e-mail (more on this later), you ... ’re dying to get off-campus (understandable), you can also look... 5. Outside ... -mails get buried in overflowing inboxes; it happens to all of us. But listen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  page. We did not expect there to be such big beef over pineapple on pizza ... multiplier gets even higher, which only increases the incentive to defect. EG ... balance between people trying to deceive each other and people trying to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... Art was responding to comments on my page, from artists who had thanked me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020