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

  

  getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... first and the second, I stopped by MIT Medical, where I was referred to a ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• 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 ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... 'll pay interest and you'll have to keep your card at the bank to get your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t be boring.  I’m overwhelmed and realizing the stress is getting to me ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content ... .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  application is (probably) not the place to get too experimental, or to be ... that gets us over the finish line. It's also why, when people ask me to ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  to a communal pot. The pot is multiplied by some multiplier (larger ... multiplier gets even higher, which only increases the incentive to defect. EG ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... to get Prod Munchies, which are named after the Production department

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hope to get out of the job. Make sure you've done your research on what ... programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want ... to make school assignments more interesting by incorporating the things ... getting the stupid gas cloud to spin properly and we only got 2nd place and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• 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 ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat, from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  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
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... to the spring protection implemented at the school by an organization

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... I went to was staffed by an older version of me, who'd list all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter cold has been replaced by stifling heat and humidity, with the two week ... something constructive to do rather than getting in to trouble. In the last 25

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... lovely; the crowds were immense. The lines were too long to get to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  where Iroh is captured and entrapped by the crystals. I wanted to ... responsibilites to fill the gap left by her mother and later her father. Katara ... access to Arab satellite television was cheap. Some of the channels weren

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  to the distress usually caused by on-site interviews because I've only ... don't think I am. My goal is to have at *least* one job offer by the ... unfortunately not super common. most people want to get job experience over the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019