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  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... out to get you. They’re so kind, in fact, that they give you an entire ... get money from MIT to host cool events. Consequently, the choices are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For ... get the acronym to work"]VUVUZELA.[/annotation]We write up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... adjacent to this area, so it might get loud between 7 and 11 pm Building 36 ... serve as perfect mirrors when it gets dark. dancers used to use this as a

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

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  eyes and let it move you. Then get to work . . . [Read more]" Acceptance ... These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• 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

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... , whatever. I’m gonna get back to work.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... place to get some (training wheels) life experience and I'm grateful for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• 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 ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... , 3E went to get waffles and then went back to next. Yesterday, we went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating ... activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016