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• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... Manhattan Chinatown. Things haven't changed that much, right? :) I actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... (right) does not have. This dip is due to an oxygen-hydrogen bond ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... for the rest of the day; I didn’t have much to do. For dinner, I eat ... meal swipes he needed to use. So we eat. I forget to take a picture until

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  done this a couple times). We need each other to survive at MIT. 4. Exams ... season 5? I still need to catch up....) ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  demonstrated it once and encouraged her to just play with it. Daymé says that his ... needed to “stop entertaining other options.” The fact that multiple ... really didn’t think she was going to like it. Once she got to MIT, WISE was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  ), and in order to set up breeding pairs, the postdocs needed to know which macaques were closely related to others. I don't think I got paid much ... - August 2006 I'm sure I don't need to say anything about this job (duh), but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need ... does it make sense when you say you have ‘nothing to wear’. Sometimes it ... have to prioritize. As Professor Peter Fisher once said to me, “Bill

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  depends on your needs, and I'm not looking to start a flamewar here.  I will ... I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here ... hilariously showed me his registration schedule once and lamented that he had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... 's totally all I needed to go. I prefer the hotter weather, I put my two ... , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , you’ll need to take a fitness assessment as part of your application ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their ... before I came to MIT (not even as something done at other schools), but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  (understandably) you guys say "Look! You need X, Y, and Z to get into MIT!" To ... it however you like. So when a parent says to me, "Why does HYPSM ... Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  significantly, you'll also need things to eat. My suggestion: stock up before the ... to expire until much later in the day. In the immortal words of Bachman ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  ! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  true that most actions are reversible and sometimes you just need to live ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  excited to be taking, a student that will never need to take another GIR. I ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Everyone said: you need to demonstrate that you are really serious about ... perfectly clear in my head that I both wanted and needed to go back to the ... needed - I responded to the other programs declining their offers, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... once) but it was hard to spend much time with as many people as I’d hoped ... they need to run the events, and making sure that things actually happen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... the first day said “everyone knows that you need to pre-register if you ... interesting! I feel like I learn so much more so much faster when I get to work

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020