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

  

  software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating ... you are timelike separated from a reasonable hour for phone calls

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it

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

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

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... late.  What is something that you take for granted?    Bryan: I ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual ... notoriety for writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his Stanford application

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some ... them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of suicide and mental health at mit. my undergraduate thesis for comparative

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers. For instance: “I’m thinking 18C.” “Leaning towards 8.” “Probably 6 ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he ... put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note ... only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  intense because we talked for hours straight, but I met some people during ... home for my 4 years at MIT. It was a cool experience starting classes the very [annotation note="First years are already on campus for orientation

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024