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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT ... ’s student government). After being selected by the committee, we each spoke to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... sticking with it, however half-heartedly, seemed safer than committing to ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• 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 ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... reminded that it was time to eat. Various other tEp events, like our weekly

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

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

  

  possible solution to our problems on the E train. CJ: I think it was only ... see it again, and to know that there would be no transfers after this ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -related weight gain; it's like "Hey, it might be freezing outside, but they ... . Chris used it in the beginning of the year to schedule the first Blogger Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it’s

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  students. Most of us want to take part in the Hunt after it's written, and so ... [annotation note="To postsolve is to solve a puzzle after its puzzlehunt has ... one to look at it during the Hunt, maybe not even after the Hunt. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  physics prodigies since birth. I've talked to a number of them, and it doesn ... writing. It's one of those things you "unfortunately" have to do as a ... : ...second floor. Dumbledore: To the Marlar Lounge. Me: Marlar Lounge. Got it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... "]cooperative living situation,[/annotation] it is a lot easier to manage with 7 than it ... , while it's true I don't have to follow Institute rule, I do have to follow

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... , and it had been a long day. We still had cases to review, when a hush ... You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  well I did or didn't do was being tied to my self-worth until it wasn ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions ... ’ve always written to process when my emotions were overwhelming me. It has

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... attires and often gowns to dine. It's usually held 3-4 times a week. May

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque, diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... , you have to understand that it’s important to read beyond just all of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  MIT I found out recently that it’s possible to UROP off-campus: at the ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... myself that I needed to work harder, work harder, work harder – after all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . The very real possibility of failing the class and having to retake it ... curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two ... start to notice your absence and wonder what’s happened to you. After not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020