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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... the answer before returning it to idle, listlessly day dream about the ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’Sync, breaking up and not even getting an invite to the JT’s wedding. The three of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  —this year, I finally came to terms with the fact that I get tired if I ... burden. Then, when I actually get around to doing the writing, I’m tired ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  ’re surrounded by people that know what is around the corner miles before they get ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . By encouraging the undergrads to go off and get experiences elsewhere ... . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the ... getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... Class of 2018 to the Class of 2026, and by the time I leave, the incoming ... getting to watch current undergrads learn to appreciate the same things I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects ... mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... actually covered by the professor him/herself. This means learning to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 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 ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to ... , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our

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

  

  never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... the anger and loneliness and sadness, to get to a place where I could ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that ... .  Slowly but surely I'll get to the marathon distance.    

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... of the semester to get incoming frosh excited. One of the biggest ... on David and Alex to make sure the paper gets written and finished

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014