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• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... conquered that one. No one, not even MIT, can take away the accomplishments

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can ... top of my queue and freeze the entire outside world until they’re over ... . Usually my steady-state equilibrium can survive occasional shocks and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  family and contributing at home.  How many hours of sleep did you get last ... lower than my usual. I’m generally pretty strict about getting at least ... ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 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…

  

  , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... 'll never know what you can accomplish until you push yourself. I also found

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

  bye (for now)

  

  weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... contentedness. there are things that happen when you graduate. you get gently ... immediately so you get some trailing emails delegating tasks or announcing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , you get the picture. Whenever I interact with Nora, she smoothly ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  much maple syrup you can fit on one plate. 03:17 - 06:17 Epic Meal ... eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the ... missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  something that you don’t. We can all learn from each other. GETTING AROUND ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... track. You can just not go to things (like classes) and people won’t get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... ’re dying to get off-campus (understandable), you can also look... 5. Outside ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the

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

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

  

  entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy ... freshman Orientation, each incoming MIT student gets a copy of some version ... compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  earlier. You can also get July leases, but those are less common. It can be ... independence I get. I can have overnight guests every day of the week, every day of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

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

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

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... yogurt melts and freezes much slower than ice cream because yogurt has a ... you can pretty much attach anything you want (when I applied - Columbia

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... *LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY *I Can Has Cheezburger *MC Frontalot *Rooster Teeth, the creators of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... -come, first-serve basis, and there are a few that get snatched up right away. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool

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

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

  

  can get on the Blue Line. We take the train out towards Wonderland, a ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... [annotation note="much more"]more[/annotation]about that…later. For now, a general

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020