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  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  tend to be blockers to a team's progress, so they needed thorough ... puzzle to "Needs Factcheck". Factchecking is the process of making sure a ... mechanism is much harder. As a novice author, my first instinct was “I want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  year, because you only need to miss a few PE classes to fail one. Also ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... schools. I want to lay out some basics about what you might want or need to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... 't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  smart enough to get into MIT for their college years? I've always been a ... -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (<

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... people reading this can understand this experience to some level: a missed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  need to go through a lot of training and orientation sessions. I attended ... of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to ... , because apparently everyone has to be a founder in this party. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  remember a time when I used to feel smart: The test is from the Fall 2004 ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  someone that needs variety to stay engaged, this is definitely a world for ... does it cost per customer to keep the product running? How much money does a singular customer make for the company? Tests to run to measure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of ... significantly much more time to figure out. Regardless, I've been keeping busy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... favorite two. Roast is also a time for halls and suites to do something art

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the ... healthy amount of skepticism; i don’t have time to do a detailed literature

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything ... world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006