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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  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 ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... . I do promise to get around to more of them as soon as I can. I'm sure ... right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember ... over that snothead you used to get into shenanigans with back in high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... % of students will have gone to get mental health help. And that ... gets tough. A few of them that I particularly looked up to talked about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . Because of my astronomy expertise, I get to give talks for amateur astronomy ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -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 what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011