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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  are a ghost. You now realize you don’t need to sleep. You are already ... . You go to create a pset. You wrap nearby wifi antennas in foil and ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  becomes more import to REX than REX itself, then I think this does become a ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... merged to a single Campus Preview weekend. It was held [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class ... a short break. Much needed sometimes."]7 minutes[/annotation] btwn now ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , because I thought I had to. I thought I needed a pair of sperrys if anyone ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... with a full-blown Tron Guy. Photo Opp! Unfortunately after registration I had to go take a math test. I should take this opportunity to say

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  to William Shatner. OK, this hasn't been a novel so much as an ... the story, I need you to go watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 ... ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  building a class and a community. You don't need to apologize for what you ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  nurture,” it does add a tremendous structural asset to the growing mountain ... highlighted to them. A 2005 study showed that girls score much lower than boys ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  telling me to give my hand a rest. As a response, I created an Instagram ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... but does not eliminate planned, long-form posts that require a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022