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  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for ... and for humankind. Someday, we’ll look back on these four years as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... -played song from the soundtrack. For more Hamilton content on the blogs, see

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome ... on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... do psets handed to you on a plate, but rather on how well you apply ... forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at ... ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... people left on campus were those who had exception housing, for one reason ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to someone else. I hope spending some money on some of these things, or ... playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when ... cold shower Listening to music/painting/art Go for a walk or run

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... I tried to go underwater to practice my breathing, I stayed down for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  muttered to myself. Beside me, an elderly woman glared. My bag was on her ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... -minute walk in the opposite direction. I was just about to collapse on the side

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current ... will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques ... scripts and formulas you can use. Base Knowledge For you to be able to

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... always count on the fire hose to spray those out with constant velocity ... awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015