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  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 ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... about a minute to get the words together to tell them the good news. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... . Say yes to things. You will get asked to do many things. You should say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start ... Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight to get to take classes at this level. He's really impressive. Great ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get ... to further my artistic and cooking pursuits.  I want to get more into

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... situations." Only long term perservence was going to get me through this ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... time to get work done and oftentimes I found myself just wandering around ... different things, there's no way to find the study method or work schedule

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  which to stand, and slowly, surely get stronger with the help of my ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get out of bed to get ready (bathroom, brushing teeth, etc.). Making it out ... . 10.25 am: I gather up my stuff and walk back to my room to get dressed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers ... universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015