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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  motivation that propelled me to succeed academically was to get out of Alabama ... , even as strangers. We finally get to have an interaction that is free ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , but honored. We all just had such a great time getting to work together ... amazing "working" with my teammates and so wonderful to get to work on ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... doesn't have maintenance staff. You get to feel a part of a different ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... struggle to get better, the struggle to know myself, the struggle to chart ... late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... class readings, I managed to get through Michelle Obama’s Becoming

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to ... , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... get to all the schools we'd like to. But one thing is clear from talking

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012