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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... 't know the people there...I get distracted too easily by anyone I know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... I tried to go underwater to practice my breathing, I stayed down for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... are brutal). I dressed nicely and headed to lab to get some work done ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start ... building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... over the MIT community coming together for one reason: to tell you that ... to East Campus and Simmons for having the top two most responses, 18

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• 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 ... wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... enjoy using math and science to construct new things. It is safe to say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• 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 ... 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

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

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

  

  the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating ... 'll hold the rest for the second edition of The Unofficial Guide to ... you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  hundred metres underground, cared for by no one, known to exist to no one ... final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  to get it on Monday). >>>> Fast-forward to Monday morning ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016