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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... context, used to indicate a family of multiple similar subjects, varying in ... dorm, in addition to being residents of the dorm's community. A dorm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a ... 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a ... development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes ... developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with. All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  together to solve some problem in a short period of time, are happening ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... to Opening Day at Fenway Park. If you’re a baseball enthusiast like me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... do to cope with it. Cry, scream, eat your feelings. But only for a ... to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  homeless in a new country.  When you get your ETH email, forward your ... left: embrace your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step away from all ... whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... a booth on one of these tables and advertise to passersby in between

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... 've been able to sit with you in your home and hear a snapshot of your life ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... write about a robot opera in Monaco, got to hang out with one of my ... consider to be my life role models. Both of them have seen me grow in a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  in her life (getting a job, graduate school, and marriage) occurred in ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so ... inside me.  One night last year, I went to see a concert in Fenway with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022