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  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it ... some people feel it. It just is that way to some people, and it's not ... , he was just colorblind. The other day, I learned that not everyone has

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

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

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... /pharmacology of synaptic transmission) lecture. Professor Wurtman is happy with the class performance on last Thursday's midterm. The lecture is about the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... 't be able to resist creeping on the blogs to see what everybody is up to ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... think about most is the fact that I almost didn’t apply. This scares me ... worst. You see, the admissions officers truly are not lying. We’ve been

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• 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…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... days you get sick of stir fry all the time. Anonymous asked: Is it ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not

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

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... you get your resume down, the rest is completed on autopilot. You fill ... quizzing you on math concepts during your interviewer, and all the math is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... seem fine with the idea that CPW is not a complete preview of MIT. One ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . The only regret I have is not getting the help I needed sooner. One of ... sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lines of "What is the difference between Chemistry and Chemical ... prefrosh alike, the correct answer to that question is... "There is actually ... the quantum level, whether they'll kill you or not and WHY WHY WHY WHY

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

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it ... of you, I know, that is not good news. But hopefully most of you ... agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  dorms. Wait, why is East Campus far away from the other dorms? It's not ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... amused. “Yes, um, this is the wrong way.” He helped with the bags, led me ... a website that revealed an entire page of coded words. We decoded the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... around them. The absolute worst part of this job is the fact that there are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  quote an old Baptist book of wisdom that the best rest is not idleness as ... application is (probably) not the place to get too experimental, or to be ... . Decision fatigue is a term from the behavioral psychology literature. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . This is not only the first catalog we've seen with professors separated ... , that's the class of 1893, not 1993. Walker. Walker Memorial is listed in ... textbook: "It is not at all unusual to find that the adjustment of a single

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... they happen, who the students are, how large it is, and how long it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... the common assumptions of what an MIT student is like does not describe ... antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020