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  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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you're ... like if the wind won't get you, the floods will. If your roof doesn't get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  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

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... ’s adorable. And your enthusiasm is great. P.S. - I wanted to clarify that I ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• 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

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... not to you.      You may give them your love but not your thoughts ... , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.      You may strive to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... getting the stupid gas cloud to spin properly and we only got 2nd place and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... ’ve been able to get through rejection after rejection and pure uncertainty

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn in your problem sets- and not say a single word of english to anyone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• 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

  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

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007