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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... , and -- if you’re in a field like mine -- you can do your work from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... looked like this: We had gone from 300,000 to 2.4 million in less than a ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... don't go there. To summarize: be yourself, and let your essay be a ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  'm serious. 10. Take a weekend trip to NYC - Chinatown bus. $15. Gets you ... because I was at Brown, though. :( 62. Get your name and/or picture in the ... - how else do you get to the airport? lol. I'm too poor to take a taxi

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the ... , but honored. We all just had such a great time getting to work together

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  :1 water to grain ratio), and your bouillon of choice, and place it in a pot ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... . Lastly, array this cube in a 25x25 array, and you're done. As you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... , as long as you’re qualified you’ll get a UROP as a freshman, become

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  on this one, just because a) it's a fun way to get to know your ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for ... , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... , and you probably don’t have responsibilities to a family of your own yet

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your ... treatment of your application and to our treatment of one another, rooted in ... pull in extra furniture to ensure everyone has a seat at the table. Some

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone ... easier to keep your momentum going than to try to get started partway ... done letting your eyes well up a bit, open the door to your room and go

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  or two—this is always better than being a burrito in your bed, although being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... get around to this coffee table that I'd first dreamed of more than a ... get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021