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  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... and nodded and gave me a thumbs up and said, “You’re getting it! You’re

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you ... occasionally to think out loud with his hands extremely close to your face, or to encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• 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 ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  are truly lucky to have Grimson as your chancellor, and I, like everyone ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• 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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of 2012, you can and should get your copy of How To Get Around MIT this ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• 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 ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times ... class) will go faster than you're comfortable with and you'll just hope to ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... to your classes, you're preventing yourself from doing so as well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... process. PRCs are meant to be an unbiased sounding board, and we are your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... your enjoyment, here are more pictures of my little ray of sunshine to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• 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 ... drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011