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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  ?). The smog is believed to have been caused by the volcanic event, but has ... problematic for my soft, smooth chains of Pockets. To protect against getting ...  critter react to captivity? My critter was carried from the forest to the desert by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... want to get there by [annotation note="i like to be a little on the ... on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... means I don't get to watch House when it airs every week, but this seminar

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit ... , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• 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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... getting ready to one day go to college, and suddenly COVID was supposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do ... relatives are is not determined strictly by blood or by who gives birth to who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• 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 ... . Also, Next Haunt was a horror escape room, so we’d get jump-scared by ... learned that the cast members were told not to eliminate anyone but just get

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get ... match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• 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 / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... and replacing them with the econ courses i won't get to take, but i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean ... taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... passengers passes by. Then, a train originally destined to Ashmont rolls by ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020