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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... once used as a yardstick to measure the Harvard Bridge (n.) Tim (n ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visas, even. Pretty much everything was set for us to go. One Sunday ... was when I thought about how much I complained to my friends about how much I hated myself, versus how much my friends complained to me about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... and raise them to just their second story heights at first. Then, once ... them at once, but we were able to set up an assembly line with half of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  energy with them. The room was quiet. Then, suddenly, the quietness was ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  project and what I need to do over the next week or so. 6:35 -- I arrive ... energy in comparison to the apathy of my mother. Still, in my mom's defense ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible ... distancing. Fingers-crossed for returning to a much healthier Cambridge soon ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... that I thought he had, and that I need. (I am annoyed.) He tells me to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  Silicon Valley, I do need to admit that my educational trajectory to the MIT ... position to pursue pretty much any engineering career I wanted. 7. I liked ... semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ambition fit. I suppose this also explains why I feel a strange need to ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... need to take better care of myself before I run around thinking I ... focus on myself. When I look the next word I need to type. When I care

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... could cry, then I would much rather them leave me alone and allow me to ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  orient myself to a new reality. I probably needed a break from lifting ... the heavy things, but still needed sturdy ground on which to stand. I ... Jamie C. '19 and I (among others) had once bought the materials to build a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015