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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... use to force myself to learn. I hope it is anyway. # I’m used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  -gravity environment. MIT expects and forces you to work and *be* at so much of a higher ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  very interesting, and we were forced to read a ton of papers to get up to ... teacher, Ayan Meer, it forced me to read a lot of difficult books on topics ... are hard, and Prof. Cohen uses a variety of methods to try to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve ... production aspects of this year's Mystery Hunt, and compare it to previous ... gift of puzzles, I think about what it means to contribute to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  narrower and narrower, until it came to the point that i’ve reduced most of ... wrong, now that i’m conscious of it. as much as i want to blame capitalism ... —but i didn’t want to think about it. i didn’t want to think about any of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... looked up only to meet 6 sets of eyes. Each set seemed to reflect upon ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... loose. The hack was sent to all of the class lists, meaning every single ... major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to ... critiques the video at certain points, forcing it to repeatedly pivot to appeal to the priorities of different groups (such as students vs. parents

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  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 ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... had past experience lining soccer fields and introduced us to the method ... were cut to the side length of the overall footprint, while the third was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle ... back. You’ll have plenty of other, greater successes to celebrate. As ... of your childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’s difficult to force yourself out of bed, and there are some nights when you ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In ... using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... 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

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... question to ask those of you itching to ask this question: who the hell cares

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... place in history as some of the first people with complete access to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before

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

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

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010