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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes ... not want to ever be a person who spends several pages organizing things ... to get homework done, trying to maintain a sleep schedule, calling my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... enough. It's been a long road for someone like me to get my foot in the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a good while. In the meantime, I get some pictures of the trains that ... ’s an SL4 bus right behind it. It takes us down a short jaunt to Nubian ... Maureen in Rent, ‘you dressed up as a groundhog to protest the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... some slack (and if you send a polite and apologetic email to your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... ... I just don't happen to be close to a lot of guys in frats, plus some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• 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 have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn-raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for ... polycarbonate roof to keep the worst of the snow and ice off the platform. In a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... opinion, is a good place as long as you're willing to actually contribute

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... your life. So to a lot of people the n word is just another word because

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... classmate you’re talking to says he’s a HASS major. You blink. There’s nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... ) Get your 7 hours of sleep. You're not going to get more done in that ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011